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...these and many another were Men of the Year, but the discerning citizen would pause long before putting any of them ahead of the man, apparently the one man, who could and did perform the year's largest politico-economic job for the world's leading nations. Economics underlies war. War leaves economic tangles which must be straightened out before society can proceed in peace. The man who spent four months as foreman of the high financial wrecking crew which was the Second Reparations Conference, was Owen D. Young of Van Hornesville...
...Largest refund: Carnegie Steel Co. (U. S. steel subsidiary), $25,847,259. Insurance companies collected some 35 millions from the Treasury as a result of a recent Supreme Court interpretation of income from tax-exempt securities held by such companies...
Germans were saddened by this statement. It killed a popular rumor of long standing that the Fatherland's two greatest shipmasters would pool their resources to build the largest ship in the world. True, Germans built the largest ships of today- the sisters Majestic and Leviathan-which belonged to the Hamburg American Line until seized by the Allies after and during the War. But the French Line now has under construction a ship designed to be bigger than the Leviathan or Majestic, faster than the Bremen, and German hearts are sore that Frenchmen are about to worst them...
...Pullman Co. was the largest railroad manufacturing company in the world. It had 14,000 employes, most of whom lived in Mr. Pullman's model city- Pullman, Ill. In 1894 came the famed Pullman strike, featured by the late Eugene Victor Debs's rise to national prominence and by Mr. Pullman's classic statement: There is nothing to arbitrate. Mr. Pullman died (1897) of angina pectoris...
...astronomical society meets annually at one of the observatories of America to discuss to accomplishments of the past year. The last time that Harvard was the host was during the Christmas period in 1921. It is the largest society of its king in existence, having a membership list of approximately 400, most of whom are professional astronomers. The president, Ernest W. Brown of Yale University, has been devoting most of his time during the last several years to the study of the motion of the moon...