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...tenants' leases expire next October. Meanwhile the architects, Allen & Collens of Boston and Henry C. Pelton of Manhattan, who have had ten draftsmen working for two months, will work for six more months on the details.? The building will be of gray stone, probably of Indiana limestone, over a steel skeleton. It will cover practically all of the 22,500 feet of land (225 feet on Riverside Drive, 100 feet on W. 122nd St.) Its nave, 100 feet wide, will run north and south, parallel with the Hudson River. Its main entrance will be at the south end through...
Other merchandisers gave their analyses of general conditions. They found that the railroads Lad just ended a happy year; that the automobile industry had again confounded pessimists; that 1925 set another record for building; that steel, silk, wool, cotton and rayon were prospering. Then a banker, O. H. Cheney, Vice President of the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, oriented once and for all the importance of the dry-goods industry, and answered those supercilious ones who have jeered at dry-goods men. "I think," he said, "that the department store might be considered the greatest single factor in raising...
...studied night and day, and in 14 months was rated a mechanic; by 21 he was foreman over 300 men; at 30 a master supersalesman and general manager of the important Pittsburgh Wire Co. of Braddock, Pa. He knew more about the mining, the processing and the utilization of steel than nine-tenths of his customers, to whom he sold intelligently and helpfully...
...life he had been collating knowledge about shipping, foreign trade and the internal conditions, principal industries, steel requirements and tariffs of foreign nations. So when in the panic year of 1893 he got his promotion to the general managership, he could go abroad to sell his products. Outside of the U. S. he sold one-half of the 1893 output of his plant, to the wonder of the trade. Then through successive absorptions and mergers the U. S. Steel Corporation was organized in 1901. Mr. Farrell still ranked as the great authority on the steel foreign trade. He became president...
Before the War he could tell from memory the exact location of hundreds of ships plying all the oceans. In 1911 he was elected president of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Throughout his astounding progress and accomplishments in the steel field, which he to a considerable extent built up, he has retained his pleasant humanity...