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Last week, finding that he would not be able to address a convention of the American Institute of Steel Construction next week at Pinehurst, N. C., Herbert Clark Hoover sent out for a microphone and recording apparatus; read into the microphone and onto a phonograph record the speech he had prepared to read at Pinehurst. No Cabinet member or other high U. S. official ever did such a thing before...
...Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor's withdrawal. A return to the confusion at Babel was predicted if contractors, engineers, architects, et al. are once more obliged to deal separately with the conflicting claims and rules of union electricians, plumbers, masons, carpenters, steel workers...
...oldfashioned opera houses seeing the stage was of minor importance. Since Richard Wagner introduced epic and dramatic beauties, the importance of the stage has increased. Mr. Urban's plans not only provide superior sight lines for the audience; they also include a stage mechanism of elevators, steel screens, side rostrums, of such modern ingenuity that Max Reinhardt, most inventive of stage directors, exclaimed he could present any of his revolutionary dramatic spectacles...
International Mercantile Marine stockholders last week decided to exchange vain mementoes of a frustrated plan, for new shares that seemed to promise them actual dividends. The late J. P. Morgan organized I. M. M. 25 years ago, close to the time when he organized the U. S. Steel Corp. His ideal was to create great corporations that would lead their fields. In steel he succeeded: in shipping he failed. The overdue, unpaid dividends on I. M. M. preferred stock now amount to tidy millions. The common stock, under such circumstances, has of course earned nothing...
Harbison-Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...