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...Passed a bill to make railways use all-steel express and baggage cars on express trains...
About 3,500 new clerks will have to be employed?the greater portion of them, 2,800, by the War Department which has to go over the records of 5,250,000 men, now encased in 7,066 steel filing cabinets, weighing 1,080 tons and occupying 2.36 acres of floor space in the old Washington Barracks arsenal. More clerks could profitably be employed, except that they could not get at the cabinets. On each application 27 checking operations have to be made. The matter will be complicated by the fact that the files include 50,328 Smiths...
...annual exposition of the Salons of America opened at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Among the works that rise above the level of mediocrity, Charles Burchfield's Scrapped Locomotives invites a second glance. It is an artistic treatment of a mass of bent and broken pieces of steel- a subject that has not as yet become hackneyed. Others that stand out are the lithograph, Mother with Child, by 17-year-old Pamela Bianco (TIME, March 24), an expressive piece; the Lady in Yellow, by Leo Katz, a classic portrait of Mme. Archipenko clad in voluminous drapery; a barnyard scene...
Trade news continued to reveal a sizeable recession in both production and trade. The basic steel industry in particular has slowed down to a marked degree, and is now operating on about a 60% capacity. In some specialty lines, such as carpets, a real breakdown has occurred...
Ever since its organization in 1901, the U. S. Steel Corporation has ranked as the largest corporation in the world, with common and preferred stock totaling $868,583,600. Of recent years, however, the rapid growth in the capitalization of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has been creeping up, while Steel's capital stock has remained unchanged. Now, by issuing $150,000,000 of additional common stock, A. T. & T.'s capitalization has finally passed Steel's previous record, and amounts to $898,398,000. This makes the Telephone Company the world's largest corporation...