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...Anglo Canadian Publishers, Ltd. and now he is making money with Canada's lone picture magazine, the monthly New World (current circulation...
...ladder to shave; it was undoubtedly his brother who was so small that it took two men and a boy to see him. So when they heard that Hugh Roy Cullen gave away upwards of $100 million one night last week, Texans recognized a true son of the Lone Star State...
...Daingerfield, Tex. (pop. 1,700) the townsfolk were as excited as if a 10,000-barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed...
While they discussed ways & means, they got bad news. U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma mines, which supplied coal to Lone Star. (There was no suitable coal in Texas.) If Big Steel, which wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant in Houston, got the mines, Lone Star was done for. Was Big Steel bigger than Texas...
...split in CAB's thinking was plain to see last week when CAB approved, by a 4-to-1 vote, a 90% boost in Chicago and Southern's mail pay on its New Orleans-Havana route. The lone dissenter was CAB's newest member and chairman, James McCauley Landis. Landis, who usually gets what he wants, was bent on taking a hard, realistic look at the rates and routes awarded by CAB in the past. He did not think that subsidies should be boosted to make up for CAB's mistakes in granting routes...