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Steelmen expected, last week, to find their industry in its customary, unalarming summer doldrums. With surprise and pleasure, therefore, they noted that mighty U. S. Steel Corp. reported unfilled orders (traditionally significant) on June 30 of 3,637,009 tons, an increase of 220,187 tons over May. They noted further that July production was at 75% of capacity, a high average for midsummer. And Carnegie Steel was anticipating even better business by raising prices of steel products $2 a ton, returning to the price levels of the early part...
Memorable, last week, was the sudden, unexpected burst of activity in the steel industry (see below...
...Hicksville, N. Y., last fortnight, Nathan L. Miller, onetime Governor of New York, famed attorney for the U. S. Steel Corp., successfully defended a butler for shooting a monkey (TIME, July...
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...