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...Dallas' Mercantile Bank auditorium last week, stockholders crowded in for the first annual meeting of Lone Star Steel Co. Texans were anxious to know how their first home-owned heavy metal industry (TIME, April 7, 1947) was doing. They heard the good news that Lone Star's stock, floated at $1.50 a share, was selling over the counter for as high as $7.50. Then came the bad news...
...smoked it out was Carl Estes, oilman, publisher, and one of the principal Lone Star organizers. Ailing Mr. Estes was brought to the meeting on a stretcher. While his doctor plied him with pills, he read off a ten-page blast at management for selling pig iron to outsiders at little more than half the Texas market price. Who were the buyers? Why were these money-losing deals made...
...large, Italians conducted democracy's most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board unctuously escorted her out, thanked her for voting. "Thank you," she replied sweetly. "But are you the host...
...Lone serious note of the program was injected by new football coach Art Valpey who promised "to build a gridiron squad in keeping with past Harvard tradition if the Freshmen and the rest of the College would think only of the team and not sympathize with any individuals...
Dick Harlow was always a lone wolf, wary of his opponents and his critics in the press and uncertain as to the ability of his assistant coaches. He demanded active command in all departments, and sometimes it was just too much...