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...explosion blew their house to bits. Surging through the streets of West Virginia and Ohio towns on either bank, the crest rolled on toward Cincinnati and Louisville. But most downstream Ohio River cities, forewarned, experienced and well fortified with dikes and levees, viewed the flood with small concern...
...London Naval Treaty does not fix any naval ratio among the Great Powers, does not limit the total tonnage or number of effectives of any navy, has no concern with the peace of Eastern Asia and provides no wedge for the Open Door of China which Japan is now fast closing. Those four safeguards to the Peace of the World have definitely been allowed to lapse...
Meantime the steel industry was concerned with another and more fundamental aspect of steel prices - the basing point system of quotations. This system is a modification of the old "Pittsburgh Plus" plan. Carefully nurtured by U.S. Steel's late Elbert Gary, Pittsburgh Plus worked on the simple principle of charging every buyer the price of steel in Pittsburgh, plus freight to his door, regardless of where the steel was made. Thus in one classic example soon after the War, when the Pittsburgh price was $40 per ton, a Chicago concern was paying $47.60 for steel made by its next...
Little faith in human nature has National Surety Corp., which insures companies against losses caused by dishonest employees, burglars, holdup-men and forgers. Little faith in corporate nature has many a stockholder and creditor of National Surety Co., predecessor concern of National Surety Corp. The Company did nicely calculating the odds on other people's employees' yielding to temptation, became the largest fidelity & surety insurance outfit in the U. S. In 1928 it took in $18,000,000 on its bonding business, made nearly $2,000,000 profit on investments, paid $1,500,000 in dividends. Meanwhile...
...Northland Transportation Co., this system prospered so sweetly it looked good to Great Northern Railway's then President Ralph Budd. Unlike other railmen, he considered busses not as rivals but as possible allies. In 1926 Great Northern therefore bought 80% of "Northland for $240,000. Leaving that concern largely in Great Northern's capable hands, Busman Wickman formed Greyhound Corp., a holding company for a baker's dozen of other buslines which he & associates proceeded to buy. By 1929 Greyhound straddled from coast to coast, and straddled on Greyhound was a top-heavy financial structure in which...