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Premier Baldwin was taking his annual cure at Aix-les-Bains, Minister of Labor Sir Arthur Ramsay Steel-Maitland hastened from his vacation in Scotland. At the Premier's residence, No. 10 Downing Street, Sir Arthur and Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer conferred for an hour and a half with Mr. Cook and President Herbert Smith of the Miners' Federation, arrived at no compromise...
Once upon a time (1810) one Friedrich Krupp purchased a forge in Essen; hammered hard and long in making a new product, "cast steel"; died. His good works were carried on by his widow and 14-year-old son Alfred, but little success was achieved until 1847, when the Krupp works exhibited a 3-pound muzzle-loading cannon of cast steel which attracted wide attention. German militarists, pleased, gave orders. The Krupps built model villages- "colonies," with schools, libraries, recreation grounds, clubs, stores. When Alfred Krupp died at Essen in 1887 he was called the "Cannon King...
...workmen. At his death in 1902, he was succeeded by his elder and able daughter Bertha who in 1906 married Dr. Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. At that time, Germany was just getting into her stride in the naval competition with Great Britain, and the demand for steel was enormous. Before the War, visitors to Essen stood aghast at the monstrous flame-belching foundries hastily proceeding with their grotesquely demoniacal output. And during the War Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen was undoubtedly the most potent female defender of the Fatherland...
...hundred and twelve million U. S. inhabitants acknowledge the executive shepherdage of Calvin Coolidge, refuse to "recognize" the 139 million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic...
...gave thanks for a report by the U. S. Bureau of Standards that arc-welded girder joints can be substituted for pneumatically riveted joints, being as strong, often stronger. The significance: no more cannonading clatter on skyscraper frames outside the sleepy urbanite's window; arc welding, where girder steel is melted into a joint by powerful electric current, is silent...