Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significantly in Shanghai last week the U. S. and British Chambers of Commerce held a joint conclave, then dispatched U. S. Chamber President W. H. Plant on the Empress of Russia which will reach Vancouver November 14. President Plant, who is Far East Manager for U. S. Steel Products Co., announced that he is bringing "startling details of the carefully planned Japanese threat to the American commercial stake in China...
...building of the U. S. Department of Labor was opened in Washington in 1935, an exhibition of 15 paintings dignified it. They were by John Kane, Pittsburgh laborer and house painter whose canvases stand alone in U. S. art as monumental documents of the Monongahela and Allegheny Valley steel country. An Irishman, who grew up working in Scottish mines and came to the U. S. at 19, Kane was unknown as an artist until he was past 60. He died in 1934 at 74. This week the rugged, blue-eyed, peg-legged man's extraordinary autobiography, Sky Hooks...
WASHINGTON--Two witnesses told the House Committee investigating un-American activities today that Gus Hall, an organizer for a Committee for Industrial Organization Union and former Communist Gubernatorial candidate, directed bombings and other terroristic acts during the 1937 "Little Steel" strike at Warren...
Hopping mad, certain independents surreptitiously undercut the official prices Big Steel had set for the industry. For a while Big Steel ignored this as a petty annoyance, but fortnight ago the buying demand of the automobile industry forced even Big Steel to shade its prices some $4 a ton, lowering cold-rolled sheets to $62 compared with $73 last spring. When an independent then cut the price another $2, Philip Murray was not the only steel man to fret. With the industry working at only 53% of capacity, it was clear that such price-cutting, if continued, must mean heavy...
Last week prices suddenly returned to the official level. As usual, no steel company would comment, but it was clear: 1) that the automobile companies had completed most of their fall buying; 2) that by finally acknowledging and meeting the surreptitious price cuts, Big Steel had convinced its angry competitors that, even if it is not a monopoly, it is still too big for them to trade punches with...