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...prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee of the Communist Party, his few words were treasured up as pregnant oracles...
After J. G. White & Co. sell the securities of the National Toll Bridge Co., the J. G. White Engineering Corp. ("greatest in the world") will superintend the construction of the proposed toll bridges across the Ohio and Missouri rivers. Millions will be spent and huge masses of steel will be flung across wide water, but all the same these jobs are small ones for James Gilbert White. He is a great imperialist of U. S. contracting. Upon five continents his engineers are carrying the dynamic principles of U. S. business into lands where U. S. political influence will perhaps never...
Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...late James Jerome Hill drove the last spike into the ties of the Northern Pacific railroad and the Atlantic coast became tied thereby to the Pacific coast by steel rails. It was a dramatic event, which kept the entire country talking. Hartford capitalized the "news" interest by renaming his company the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. In 1912 telephones were taken out of A. & P. stores. Credit and delivery privileges were no longer granted customers. These changes brought an increase in business of 65%. Three years ago the company was reincorporated as the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. of America...
...year. Had such colorful news been connected with the president of almost any other equally large corporation in the U. S., it would have become a front-page serial with installments whenever and wherever President Hartford moved. The Hartford uniqueness arises from the fact that, unlike most giant steel, motors, tobacco or food-selling corporations, the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company has practically no stock in the hands of investment houses or "the public." Hartfords and associates own it. Therefore the history, the opinions, the nature of its chief officers are not "public matters...