Word: steeling
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...Moscow grim Nikolai Lenin's grimmer successor, Josef Stalin, showed last week that he too can coin mirthless epigrams, as hard as the nickname, "Steel," which Lenin gave him. Samples...
While terrified Düsseldorf continued in acutest suspense a rumor leaked out that the supershrewd detectives were also sending out "decoy victims" - pretty young women in suits of light, flexible armour with padded steel under their hats, alert guards in the offing...
...first necessity for a young man engaged in foreign trade is a knowledge of the particular business in which he is employed. . . . We have seized unfairly the commerce of no people. We have taken no mean advantage of the extremity of others"-President James Augustine Farrell of United States Steel Corp., essaying in the current North American Review...
...addition to its carrier service (in which it has a virtual monopoly) Pullman also engages in the manufacture and sale of passenger and freight cars. Last week it arranged to strengthen its dominant position in this field by absorbing Standard Steel Car Co. and its affiliated Osgood-Bradley Car Co. From this merger Pullman would diversify its production to include street railway cars, steel forgings, grey iron castings, as well as increase its railroad car production...
...Pullman-Standard combination was no instance of a powerful, far-reaching giant swallowing up a poor and struggling competitor. Mighty is Pullman, and on its directorate the house of Morgan is well represented. But strong also is Standard Steel, and the house of Mellon is behind its activities. The importance of the Standard-Mellon interest in the consolidation was shown by the fact that J. Frank Drake, President of Standard Steel, will become chairman of Pullman, Inc., the holding company for all the Pullman enterprises, and that Richard K. Mellon will become a Pullman director. In addition to railway...