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...Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes it and the contradictory government pol icy toward self-help co-operatives nearly wrecks it. Sig Soren (now happily mar ried to the girl who escaped from the white slavers) visits Washington, confers with President Roosevelt, and the book ends with his wondering...
When U. S. Steel absorbed Kirkpatrick, Sheldon and his well-to-do father-in-law put up $300,000 between them to form Allegheny Steel & Iron Co. with a small plant for producing specialty steel. Since then Allegheny Steel (which dropped the "Iron" in 1905) has lost money in only one year-1932. Hicks and Sheldon interests still own most of it. In 1923 Allegheny became the first commercial U. S. producer of stainless steel, licensed under German patents held by the Chemical Foundation, Inc.* Today, with the company near the top of its class, the piles of scrap steel...
...companions. He fell in love with a series of amiable Virginia belles, formed a deeper friendship with a tall, unaffected girl named Terry Mullikan, loafed at the University of Virginia until he was suspended, shipped on a freighter, worked on newspapers, married the beautiful, domineering only daughter of a well-to-do family. With her he went to Paris, lived a life of futile anxiety until, under the pressure of conflicts and suspicions that are not clearly described, he grew increasingly morbid, tormented his wife with his nervousness. Meanwhile his mother had died, his talented brother had gone through...
Helen Hull Jacobs, daughter of a well-to-do mining engineer, was born in Globe, Ariz, in the summer of 1908. Her family spent the following winter in California in a house rented from Author Willard Huntington Wright (S. S. Van Dine). At the age of six months, Helen was presented to Tennist May Sutton, an acquaintance of her mother. Just before the War, the Jacobs family moved to San Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered...
...Before a judge in Bromley County Court, well-to-do Pie Manufacturer Arthur Kempton explained a device he had secretly installed under the drivers' seats of his pie trucks to record how often the drivers jumped up and down to sell pies. A pie salesman who objected to sitting over this device while on his rounds had removed it, suffered discharge by Mr. Kempton, and was suing for wages thus lost...