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Wood touched to white-hot, molten steel, bursts into flame. Last week in Cleveland the molten metal poured on shingles made of sawdust failed to burn them. They were shingles belonging to Dr. Paul G. Von Hildebrandt, German-American chemist, with a formula for impregnating a sawdust composition against rain, wear, flame. He can, he says, make fireproof bricks, tiles, sheets, at far less than the present cost of cement and metal. Angling for capital, he promised that the ingredients for his process could all be obtained plentifully within U. S. borders; that he would turn mounds of sawdust into...
...flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens...
Eugene G. Grace, President, Bethlehem Steel Corp.: "At the annual meeting of my company's stock-holders last week, Richard A. Jones, retired Manhattan businessman, refused to vote for the re-election of Director Alvin Untermyer, son of Lawyer Samuel Untermyer, declaring that Samuel Untermyer gave comfort to 'undesirable Reds' and was 'a man of Bolshevist leanings,' and that the son could not 'escape adopting the same policies.' I answered that Alvin Untermyer was a substantial stockholder, as was his father, that he had served on the board three years...
...split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy the simple compensations of life; 2) that in trying to regulate the political structure so as to alleviate economic distress, man swings from autocracy to democracy with perfect futility. The settings convey an impression of cogwheels, greasy steel pistons, chains, derricks, clanking, rumbling, thumping. The tempo is furious, yet the action is not without clarity. Probably Rapid Transit, when it was first written several years ago, was startlingly radical. Today, it is a better one of many...
Martin Henderson (Fritz Williams), eagle of finance, from his steel cleft high above Wall Street's sidewalk, connives cold-blooded revolution in Mexico. His motive: to irritate the U. S. into intervention, thus establish law, order, prosperity for his Spread Eagle oil fields. By financing a professional revolutionary, Henderson buys a political crisis. But to make the U. S. public see red, something more personal than oil is needed. Luck has it that Henderson's daughter, Lois (Brenda Bond) introduces to her potent father one Charles Parkman, boy in search of a job, also son of a onetime president...