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...long time it has been since any U. S. steelmaster strode to a rostrum, thrust out his chin and in so many words predicted a more glowing future for the industry than anything in its molten past. Last week's steel production, 23% of capacity, was nothing to make steelmen loquacious. But in Manhattan the learned American Society for Metals heard from the lips of Tom Mercer Girdler, steelmen's steelman and president-chairman of Republic Steel Corp., these words...
...unrest, confusion, and instability, and declaring the "need of a moratorium on strikes", Dean Donham told the ad men that "there is no chance of avoiding labor rackets and disorganization in face of sudden rapid growth resulting from government support. The labor movement is unready for the vast responsibilities thrust upon...
...underlings tell the Press that he really would not interfere with a technical appointment, that he merely liked to know who was appointed before the announcement was made. And as soon as the President returned Mr. Ickes went to the White House to protest the indignity which had been thrust on his Department...
Many an economic observer firmly believes that air conditioning during the next decade will give U. S. business the same forward thrust that automobiles did from 1922 to 1929, radio from...
...started to hand out diplomas. Sixteen diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned, murmured "Congratulations." Each presentation took four seconds. On & on they came - bakers from Brooklyn, mechanics from Manhattan, soda-jerkers from The Bronx, clerks from Jersey. Cooper Union is free and many students have fulltime jobs outside. Fifteen minutes passed and the Free Hand Drawing...