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...company was by all odds the biggest family-owned steel business in the land. The money-$30,000,000-was for expansion, not refunding. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. was ready to build in its Pittsburgh works a new continuous strip-sheet mill, which is an exceedingly expensive chunk of machinery...
...warm days in January all the little boys and girls who live behind Dunster House have been squeezing their papas' oil cans on eight little roller-skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy Road swooped down upon Dunster's concrete promenade on masse. The roaring Spring flood of roller skates...
Beer was practically the only beverage used during the college's first century. Fifty-five undergraduates, consumed on the average of 270 barrels of beer a year. It was drunk at all meals as water was considered unwholesome. Breakfast known as "morning bever" consisted of beer and a chunk of bread. "Afternoon bever" preceded prayers at five o'clock in the afternoon...
...Biggest chunk of spring financing will be the Government's. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced the largest single offering of Government securities for cash in U. S. peacetime history-a $650,000,000 issue of long-term bonds with a 2¾% coupon and $600,000,000 in five-year 1½% notes. Demand for these was so brisk that Secretary Morgenthau was able to close his books after the first day. An additional $559,000,000 in bonds or notes were offered in exchange for an issue maturing in April, bringing the total operation...
United Aircraft made $434,635 in 1935. No comparison with 1934 is possible since United Aircraft is a chunk of old United Aircraft & Transport Corp. The chunk was broken off in the summer of 1934 after the U. S. Government objected to combination of air transport companies with makers of planes and engines. United Aircraft makes Pratt & Whitney engines, Hamilton propellers, Corsair military planes, Sikorsky amphibians. Good customer is Pan American Airways, for whom United Aircraft built the Sikorsky China Clipper flying the new transpacific route (TIME, Dec. 2). Earning 21? a share United Aircraft sold last week...