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...order came. Compressed air pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared...
...Steel common touched 139%, a new high for all time. General Motors common came within two points of its high...
Discussing these matters on the golf course over the weekend, even crabbed gentlemen whose putting was way off were forced to admit that steel is still industry's best barometer. Of the General Motors rise they could point out that it was based on a report from Detroit that retail auto sales in May had unprecedentedly outstripped sales in April, but that this report was based, in turn, upon unusually late motoring weather. The 30 other stocks were, however, indubitable evidence of the bankers' determination to make a market. And the higher-than-ever seat price could...
...secured a court order permitting her to sell it for $7,100,000. A syndicate had offered to purchase it at that price. They put down $500,000 as earnest money. In the syndicate were G. Maurice Heckscher, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Mrs. Vanderbilt, Leonard Replogle of the steel company of that name, Colonel Henry F. Lindsley, banker and former Mayor of Dallas, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., member of the U. S. polo team in the last international matches...
Married. Emmeline Grace, daughter of the president of the Bethlehem Steel Co. (Eugene G. Grace); to Alton Parker Hall, son of a Bridgeport clergyman, grandson of the late Alton Brooks Parker; in the chapel of Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. Six hundred guests were feted...