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...exploits of such men as Harriman, Hill and others in spreading the network of steel which today so closely binds the various parts of the nation together are the tales of true pioneers. These men followed a dream and there are others today and have been in the intermittent time who have trudged steadily along in the same pursuit. But the romance has not been the only phase, and "le revers de la medaille" is equally enthralling. Legislation aplenty has been let loose by the advent and enormous growth of the railroads, by no means least among which stands...
...dire necessity did some Japanese Marines at Hankow unlimber their machine guns to disperse a Chinese mob which attempted to loot the Japanese concession there. Two Chinese were killed; but if Baron Shidehara can manage it, their blood will not be the beginning of red freshets on Japanese steel...
...more than 500 U. S. corporations last week received and cashed dividend checks totaling more than $500,000,000 as their income for the first quarter of the year. More than 30 companies also declared extra dividends, notably American Safety Razor, Childs (restaurants), Coca-Cola, Pere Marquette R.R., Midland Steel, Humble Oil & Gas, St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R.R., United Fruit, Singer Sewing Machine. The largest extra dividend-$60 a share-was paid by a relatively obscure concern, Pratt & Whitney, manufacturers of aircraft...
...Iron & Steel. Writer John W. Hill in last week's Iron Trade Review summarized 1926 iron and steel business. Twenty-six companies earned $265,138,052 on capitalization of $3,954,170,893?6.7%. In 1925 the percentage of earnings to capital was 5.61. U. S. Steel's rate was 6.65%, that of Bethlehem Steel . 5.54%. Such returns on investments are far less than prevail in other industries, Writer Hill declared, pointing to General Motors whose earnings last year were 30%?$186,000,000 on $634,000,000 capital...
...order of the speakers according to draw, and their subjects will be a follows; K.M. Capper Johnson '27, Ramsey Macdonald's "Reduction of Armaments-1924"; P.J. Booe '28, Victor Hugo's "The Death Penalty"; A.F. Reel; F. I. Kosen '29, Auslander's "Steel"; A.F. Reel '28, George F. Hoar's, "On Retaining the Philippine Islands"; H.M. Neuberge '27, Rudyard Kip;ing's "On the Road to Mandalay"; Eduardo Andrade '28, Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"; L. Kosol '27, Edwin Markham's "The Man with the Hoe"; and H.A. Wolff '29 "Not Guilty", anonymous...