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...Shamrock Hotel. In causing its white, glass-tiered, palm-bordered bulk to rise above the Texas coastal plain, McCarthy endowed Houston with the Southwest's most luxurious hostelry-a soft-carpeted, $21 million palace which boasts French cooking (filet mignon: $11), air-conditioned bedrooms with both push-button radio and Muzak, afternoon tea served to string music and big-name dinner entertainers like Edgar Bergen and Dorothy Lamour...
...chairman of U.S. Steel's finance committee, could, or would, say why their figures were lower.* And what, asked O'Mahoney, did Fairless consider "a fair return"? Hedged Big Steel's Fairless: "Well, that is a variable . . . The profits are not something you can push a button and say that is it." Snapped O'Mahoney: "Well, that is what we are fearful of, that some of the big fellows here can push a button and get the profits...
...Damned If I'm Not." Other steelmen showed that it takes more than the push of a button to get results. Even with higher prices, said Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.'s President Ben Moreell, his company expects lower profits per ton this quarter than in the first nine months of 1949. As for dividends, said he, over the past 27 years they have averaged only 1.6% of the asset value of J. & L. stock. To give stockholders a fair return of 8% under present tax allowances for depreciation, Moreell figures that J. & L. would have to boost prices...
...toss, stepped up to the ball and swung. The ball whistled down the middle of the mist-shrouded fairway and disappeared from view. Sam pursed his lips, blinked his grey, button-bright eyes and was satisfied. Then bantam Ben Hogan, the little man who had come back to haunt him, stepped forward. To the dismay of 4,500 assembled witnesses, Ben hit one that hooked crazily and landed in a ditch out of bounds...
Bessie and her children do not stop and wait. They accept not only a flood of numbers but also elaborate instructions (often in the form of holes in a paper tape). When all the facts are in, the operator presses a starting button-and the machine quickly does the rest...