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Tallying both goals in the second period after it had lost a first-half wind advantage, the Varsity rugby team trounced the Queen's Rugby Club 8 to 0 at Soldiers Field Saturday...
Coach Harlow sent Wes Fesler and Lyal Clark to scout Army last Saturday against Columbia, and both returned with stern warnings about the shiftiness and pass-throwing ability of Woodrow and southpaw Huey. The Cadets' best play, their "three-point" fake pass, was largely responsible for their first-half drubbing of Columbia, according to these scouts...
...Steel came to terms with John L. Lewis late last winter, and if it had any complaints on the subsequent behavior of the steel union, it kept them strictly to itself. While "Little Steel" was fighting Labor on a dozen bloody fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits the U. S. Steel directors paid up the last arrears on their 7% preferred stock, making dividends on the common a possibility for the first time in five years...
Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., which not only recognized the Steel Workers Organizing Committee but signed an exclusive bargaining contract, apparently had as little trouble with the union as U. S. Steel. First-half profits were up from a measly $182,000 in 1936 to a fat $4,400,000 in 1937. For American Rolling Mill, whose name is not among the 260 steel companies in the C. I. O. fold, the six-month period was the best in its history-$6,600,000, more than the figure for the entire year 1929. Ernest Tener Weir...
...Riding the air-conditioning boom, Trane Co. (not to be confused with valve-&-bathtub Crane Co.) reported first-half profits before taxes of $227,000, against...