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Died. Judge James Hay Reed, 73, father of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania; in Pittsburgh. Judge Reed was an organizer of the U. S. Steel Corp.; was a onetime law partner of the late Philander Chase Knox (U. S. Secretary of State under President Taft and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania...
...financier who has been cruising about central and eastern Europe the last few years seeking opportunities for investing his money, last week clinched control of all manganese ore mined in the Soviet Union. Two years ago the Soviet gave him a concession to mine manganese, invaluable ore for toughening steel, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and the Caspian Seas. He was to pay the Soviet Government $3 for each ton of manganese mined and to rebuild a railroad from Tiflis to Poti. He had to produce at least 500 tons of manganese a year in order to make...
...story to look at them, trying always to fit the horror and immensity of their tasks into some scheme. Shaking light from the furnaces illuminates the stupid, pitiful anger of their faces. Author Walker describes "the look of the woman's eyes whose husband fell into a steel ladle and was melted down a year later- they didn't tell her, she found out afterwards - into an ingot...
...Yale into the A. E. F., out of the A. E. F. into steel mills and a brass factory, out of the fires to the Atlantic Monthly staff is the abrupt sequence of Author Walker's career. He wrote reminiscences under the title Steel. Then he became literary editor of the Independent and wrote this, his first novel...
...wind. She is wrestling to get free from the grip of the centaur. To the right on the shore stands Hercules, stretching his bow ready to send an arrwo into the centaur. He is a nude athlete with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno valley closed in by high mountains. The city in the middle distance is evidently meant to represent Florence, and some of the characteristic buildings, like the Duomo...