Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Howard Hale McClintic, 72, engineer, whose far-flung steel-fabricating company (McClintic-Marshall Corp.) built the Panama Canal locks; from an embolism; in Pittsburgh, Pa. Founded at the turn of the century when the Mellons put up a $150,000 stake for McClintic and his partner, Charles Donnell Marshall, McClintic-Marshall paid more than $8,000,000 in dividends up to 1931, when it became a part of Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...statement that in ideal architecture "form and function are one." Lately, to his great surprise, indefatigable Albert Kahn has discovered that the industrial buildings he has been designing all these years are "modern architecture." To show how essentially modern they are, in logic, economy, and use of steel and glass, THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week devotes its August issue to Architect Kahn...
...business figures. The stockmarket slipped badly one day, steadied the next, ended about on the same level (140.24 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages) it had maintained for two weeks. Some thought this was a lull before a reaction, others declared it a pause while business caught up. Meanwhile, steel production rose again, reaching 39.8% of capacity, an eleven-point rise since prices were cut June 24. Lumber production and wholesale food prices were also up. Freight loadings were off more than seasonally, as was power production. Wheat prices broke to new lows for the year and bank clearings slipped...
...Steel $64,735,215 d$6,302,577 Bethlehem Steel 18,316,707 1,145,213 Westinghouse 11,331,772 4,500,602 Railroads Chesapeake & Ohio 15,462,607 5,523,568 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 452,639 d 3,235,581 Building Materials Johns-Manville 2,881,334 d 24,897 U. S. Gypsum 3,401,253 2,181,219 Chemicals Du Pont 38,836,234 18,937,605 Union Carbide & Carbon .. 20,452,852 7,931,058 Automobiles General Motors 110,454,266 33,020,019 Chrysler 24,456,609 5,709,599 Packard...
...editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers. According to La Follette-committee evidence, Mr. Sokolsky has received nearly $40,000 in fees and expenses through Hill & Knowlton, chiefly for services to the Iron and Steel Institute and the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Sokolsky's philosophy: "I do not like coercion in any form. I prefer spontaneous enthusiasms...