Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst break the Berlin Stock Exchange has suffered under Adolf Hitler shrank the prices of leading issues by some 7% one day last week. A prime German blue chip, Vereinigte Stahl Werke (United Steel Works), dipped for the first time in several years below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
...into their minds are Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Miës van der Rohe. If they know of Marcel Breuer, they usually identify him as the inventor of tubular metal furniture. In the Bauhaus in 1925. 23-year-old Marcel Breuer first designed tubular steel chairs. His designs were promptly pirated and vulgarized, and being identified as a furniture designer has injured Architect Breuer ever since. Visitors last week at Harvard's Robinson Hall, where models and photographs of his work are currently exhibited, had no trouble in seeing...
Since August 1933, John Wiley Hill and Donald Snow Knowlton, heads of a Cleveland publicity firm, have received $323,000 from the American Iron and Steel Institute and individual Little Steel companies. The La Follette committee produced "personal and confidential" documents revealing the efforts of Edgar S. Bowerfind, Hill & Knowlton representative in Birmingham, Ala., to make local newspapers see the rectitude of Republic Steel Corp.'s position on labor problems. The technique, involving no innovations, consisted of visits to local editors and pressure "judiciously exerted" through advertisers...
...more exclusive than polo, class J-yacht racing or court tennis, sportsmen who want to indulge in Vogelschiessen must present a pedigree. Only descendants of these old Saxon craftsmen may shoot. With steel crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock...
...oldest U. S. steel companies and first manufacturer of boiler plate, 128-year-old Lukens Steel Co. is located at Coatesville near the hard coal country of eastern Pennsylvania. With total assets of $16,000,000, it is 14th largest in the industry, specializes in making steel plates for steamships and locomotives, nickel and chrome quality alloys. Last fiscal year, Lukens' net income was $158,218, biggest since 1929. But its operating costs also increased. When Depression II cut production as low as 35% of capacity, the company cut its payroll almost in half, laid...