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...Ecorse, Michigan Steel Corp. has been improving its plant for the past three years, increased its capacity 30% this year alone. President of Michigan Steel is George R. Fink who formed it in 1922, making it the first steel company to have its manufacturing plant in the Detroit area. President of National Steel is also George R. Fink. Therefore no surprise to steelmen was the announcement last week that National will acquire Michigan...
...this would be untrue. The scene of Made In France is laid in a chateau which a group of Americans have rented and in which the husband and suitors of the two ladies in the party were billeted during the War. One gathers that the gentlemen were active back-area cutups for when Miss De Putti makes her appearance she accuses each of them of the paternity of her twins. And Miss De Putti must have done some circulating herself for from each of the guilty gentlemen she receives 20,000 francs. But it turns out that she really...
...gasmasks to volunteers, sent them down. They came back. The gas had penetrated their masks. Out along the dirt road leading from the nearby town of Athens came the whistles and bells of ambulances, police cars, special State mine-relief cars which had been stationed throughout the coal area. Underground the mine channels were strewn with debris. A shattered 12-ton hauling locomotive had been blown 50 ft. from where it stood. Farther along the track, a 3,000-lb. steel car had flown 35 ft. The bodies of 79 dead men lay scattered about, maimed by the explosion...
Another building activity was announced last month when Sears, Roebuck said it had $5,000,000 to finance remodeling in the New York area on a 10%-down, eight-months or more-to-pay basis. In 1929 its sales of building material and equipment through all outlets came...
...young men are unable or do not choose to attend one of these colleges, theoretically they should at least attend a New England institution, for the seats of learning in this area have produced 32% of all Who's.* But the hypothetical best bet is Hampden-Sydney which, although it ranks only seventy-first (52 graduates) in the number of alumni present in Who's Who, rates No. 1 in proportion of alumni-listed-7.45%. Amherst has 296 of its sons, or 7.40% in Who's Who; Harvard, with 6.60%, comes third...