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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh (population: 673,800) calls its chest the Welfare Fund. Last year 60,292 citizens oversubscribed a $960.000 quota by $13,025. This year, under the guidance of busy Joseph C. Dilworth (Dilworth, Porter Steel Co.), 7,777 workers got 61,652 Pittsburghers to give $2,000 more than the...
To the new Rome that is the U. S. has returned one of its adopted sons, the ubiquitous, restless Russian painter of Philadelphia, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, erstwhile of the Tsar's Cossacks (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Some years he goes to the Balkans. Once he went to Haiti...
At first he tried to subsist for 47 days on sea water, two sips a day, which he stole down the mountain to get. "It contains minerals," he explained. But his stomach had troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about...
Perhaps a very farsighted steel observer could have forecast the Republic merger as long ago as April 1928, when another steel man in whom Mr. Eaton was interested also changed jobs. This man was Elmer T. McCleary, who, after 22 years with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, left its vice-presidency to...
In 1928 Combustion, through 37 subsidiary companies, had earned some $3,000,000. Tremendous were the earnings predicted from the new process. In April rights to $100 7% preferred stock were offered. At the time the common stock was selling at about 76, had been to 103, was touted to...