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Number One. At 2.30 the previous afternoon, Judge Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation invited a number of distinguished persons to attend a meeting at his office in Manhattan. The guests included Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mark O. Prentiss; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; William B. Joyce, Chairman of the National Surety Co.; Governor Smith of New York, Assemblyman F. Trubee Davison and others...
...some $4,000,000 a large interest in the Deutsche Luxemburgische Gesellschaft, one of the largest industrial concerns which the late Herr Hugo Stinnes founded and one which, with the Gelsenkirchen, Bochumerverein and Siemens concerns-the so-called Rhine-Elbe Union-controls the output of German coal, coke, iron, steel...
...yard wide, weighing eight pounds, containing a steel comb which is picked by minute pincers when notes are struck on the keyboard above-such is the Pichetone-instrument which Inventor S. Giley of Moscow declares will supplant the piano. Russian musicians assert that it has a tone superior to that of the ordinary pianoforte...
...tests already conducted, holes were burned in two-inch steel plates at a distance of one mile. Dead trees have been fired at the same distance and animal life has been snuffed out at distances ranging from two to seven miles. Dummy planes also have been destroyed in air tests. . . . There is no doubt at all that this stroke could be sent in any desired direction for 20 miles...
...Britain exported 1,000,000 tons less steel than in 1913, and im- ported 200,000 tons more. For the twelve months ending in May, 1925, Britain's steel imports cost her $100,000,000. Meanwhile the cost of doles and pensions has shot up from about 5c a ton in 1913 to $1.75 per ton today...