Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he headed Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. (founded by his father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia...
...Court of Peace at the New York World's Fair last Sunday afternoon a gay & lyric troupe of 33 took the stage. They were the Wheeling Steelmakers, employes, or relatives of employes, in twelve plants of Wheeling Steel Corp. in the Ohio Valley. The occasion: a weekend outing & spree and a World's Fair broadcast to wind up their second season...
...Wheeling Steel program is Little Steel's most ambitious radio venture. In the broadcasts, products like Cop-R-Loy pipe and Ductillite tin plate get a mention, but the main idea is to make the U. S.' public pals with Wheeling Steel. A far more ingratiating ambassador for Little Steel than Tom Girdler, the Wheeling Steel half-hour is also an economical adventure in employe participation. The employes boom the company's products and hence help along their own prosperity But judged by other half-hour musical shows, many of which cost as much...
Jeidels was born an insider, the son of an old Frankfurt Jewish banking family. Thirty-four years ago when he was in his twenties he began his career by writing ponderous, respectable tomes on Germany's growing steel industry. Later he worked in the very unerudite Manhattan brokerage shop of art-collecting Jules Bache. By 1908 he was back in Germany with its Metal Trust (whose presiding genius, Dr. Alfred Merton, was one of the German sponsors of Dictator Franco's rebellion...
...SINGAPORE EXILE MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). In Singapore to grab a steel formula wanted by several countries, Hugh North of the U. S. Army Intelligence steps into a murderous international mess. Excitement and exotic ladies...