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Minister of Labor: Sir Arthur H. D. R. Steel-Maitland...
Last week, while steel stocks were rising, the giant became Spirit and cried out with a strong voice...
...steel and stogies, for smoke-belching glass factories, for a fuliginous smoke pall, for soot and cinders and fabulous fortunes that the popular mind has pictured piled in spilling, golden mounds among dark mountains -for these things has Pittsburgh been famous since men forgot how she was once a frontier fort in the Red Indians' forest...
...plan of cloistering the Harvard Yard with a fringe of low buildings must pale into insignificance beside the gigantic vision of the new building for the University of Pittsburgh, 680 feet of towering steel and stone will make that university the highest seat of learning in the country. It will be one story higher than the Woolworth building, two higher than the Metropolitan Tower, and sixteen powerful elevators will whisk students from class to class...
...publication of income taxes brought out some interesting facts about corporations as well as about individuals. The greatest single tax paid by any one industrial organization was $15,930,901-the 1923 income tax of the U. S. Steel Corporation. The similar tax paid by the Ford Motor Co. the same year was $14,449,673. The Ford Co. started with a capitalization of only $100,000, of which only $28,000 was in actual cash. The Steel Corporation, on the other hand, started with a capitalization of over a billion, including bonds. Today, the Ford Co. has no bonds...