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...Steel v. Brass...
...prove to me that the rust-colored water was due to steel or iron pipes. Neither did the advertisement...
...McGraw, like myself, probably smiled at the imaginary situation, and was reminded of the fact that steel and iron pipe, guilty as it might have been in an advertisement, has performed an indispensable service. Credit, not blame, is particularly due to steel and iron pipe, chiefly the former, for many things Mr. McGraw, myself and millions like us, enjoy today. Without steel pipe, there might be plenty of oil today, but beyond reach. There would be no flivvers for there would be no gasoline. There would be few, if any, modern water works, supplying pure water so inducive to health...
...history. Prices of time-tried shares, long leaders in what has become known as the Coolidge market, were slashed unmercifully by the short interests, marking a decline on the exchange that reflected the country-wide depression now being experienced in almost every avenue of trade. U. S. Steel common, General Motors, General Electric and N. Y. Central shares, known as financial bellwethers and representative of industrial, railway and utility activity, were unable to offer their usual resistance to the present economic disquiet and concluded at prices considerably lower than they have notched for months...
Challenge. Said the New York Times in an editorial: "We need not be frightened by this apparent threat. . . . The European challenge is essentially one to American brains. Our . . . chemists must redouble their zeal. . . . Our chemical industry really has no more reason to fear Europe than has our steel industry, always provided that we are ready to draw our belts tighter and go into the competitive struggle with all that we have to give...