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Senator Phipps, smooth-spoken, onetime vice president of the Carnegie Steel Co., hence the best-dressed man in the Senate, represents the State of Colorado. As electioneering spokesman for his party, he deems the prime issue to be whether or not the country desires "continuance of an unprecedented national prosperity produced by the present Republican majority under the leadership of President Coolidge." How has this prosperity been attained? By- 1) The limitation of arms in the Washington Conference so that tax payers are saved five billion dollars which would otherwise have been spent on the country's naval building...
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...Steel production is at an abnormal summer rate. U. S. Steel blast furnaces are operating at 71% of capacity, those of independents at 65%. U. S. Steel unfilled orders are 3,620,352. On the Stock Exchange U. S. Steel quotations danced to 156% last week, their record high. Some stock buying speculated on a dividend distribution, some on U. S. Steel's excellent business. At Duluth, iron ore shipments this season are calculated to reach fully 55,000,000 tons, 1,000,000 more than last year...
...Where U. S. Steel Dollar Goes- taxes 4%, wages 7½%, material ½%, entertainment 13%, pumpkin pie 4%, annual report 5%, director fees 5%, net for stocks 3%, Bethlehem Steel competition 29%, expert accounting fees 29%. Where U. S. Steel Dollar Comes From- expert accounting 48%, production 2%, employes subscription fund profits 25%, stockholders...
...forests as an angel of warning to settlers and of destruction to Indians, after a band of redskins had yanked his wife naked from her blazing bed and scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more...