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...scheme failed to tempt the more vigilant pastors of Christ's flock. Said the Christian Century last week...
Last summer President Roosevelt borrowed Mr. Eastman from the I. C. C. temporarily to become his Federal Coordinator of Transportation. And when the President started to stir up the market for capital goods, he asked Coordinator Eastman to see if he could drum up enough orders for rails to tempt the four steel companies into shading their price from $40 a ton (TIME, Oct. 16). Efficient Mr. Eastman promptly came through with orders for 844,000 tons. U. S. Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only...
...Fortnight ago Railroad Coordinator Eastman tried to tempt steelmakers with a particularly luscious looking apple: an offer by 47 railroads to buy 844,000 tons of rails and 245,000 tons of rail fastenings (TIME, Oct. 16). There was a serpent beside the apple, however: the price of rails must be reduced from $40 to $35 a ton. Having pondered, the six U. S. makers of rails (Carnegie Steel, Illinois Steel, Tennessee Coal, subsidiaries of U. S. Steel; Bethlehem Steel; Inland Steel: Colorado Fuel & Iron) last week decided that the apple was tempting enough to warrant swallowing half the serpent...
British Plan. Making a success of the Conference meant, last week, that the Great Powers must get their new disarmament plans off their Chief Delegates' chests and that these plans must be such as to tempt Germany back into the parley...
Across the bay from Ballycastle lies Aran Island. Too barren and sunless to tempt invaders, it went untouched, and almost unknowing, while the rest of Ireland gave up its lands and its memories. But the fishermen on Aran still remembered Cuchulain and the Red Branch, and the language of the Erse; their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from...