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There was food. And Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, presided. Before the assemblage Mr. Davis set forth the plans which he has been maturing for three years...
...immense weights, one of 1000 pounds for the works, the other of 1500 pounds to strike the gong, fall 80 feet a week to keep the clock going. It is Mr. Walford's duty to lift them up again. Two boxes of sand at the end of steel cables constitute these weights...
...larger than a grain of rice, was exhibited at the Sprague plant of the General Electric Company, East Orange, N. J. The monster bulb is of 150,000 candlepower and requires four large cables to supply the 30,000 watts it burns. Four long strips of heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum...
...uneasiness of the stock market, its fitful rises and falls, and its air of being about to start in both directions, has reflected the general business outlook. Some branches of trade and business are better, some worse. The spurt of the steel trade is reassuring, granted that former criteria are anything to judge by. On the other hand, the much-touted business cycle does not seem much in evidence just now, or to have marked tendencies of any kind. Industrial leaders make optimistic speeches, bankers are acting noncommittal, philosophers and Senators debate, merchants cut rates on unsalable heavy winter clothing...
...rumor that the Labor Government would sell this stock.) ¶ John Hodge, prominent Laborite and ex-Minister of Labor and Pensions under Lloyd George, said: "The great combines which are being formed in this and other countries are simply an evolutionary process and as soon as the steel, iron and tinplate works are all in one big combine it will be easy to socialize...