Steel dividend cut signals austerity at United States Steel
United States Steel announces dividend reduction from 1.75 to 1 per share and plans salary cuts for officers and workers averaging about 10 percent. President Farrell may take larger shares of pay cuts while governance shifts to management to implement the changes.
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Gestates Steel
New York
A. Farrell
Hoover
James A. J
United States Steel Corporation
Rah Treen
Farrell
Wall Street
Bold aviators cross Atlantic drift toward world trip
Hugh Herndon Jr and Clyde Pangborn started from New York for a Moscow to world circumnavigation, crash landing in a Welsh farm field, then proceeded to London. Russell Boardman and John Polando left with him and landed safely in Istanbul, breaking a nonstop distance mark set by Coste.
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Gvour
Atlantic Ocean
Hugh Herndon, Jr
Clyde Pangborn
New York Municipal
Moscow
Carilgan
Walesa
London
Russell Boardman
John Polando
On & Figcht
Turkey
Istanbul
Coste
France
Lindberghs Plan Long Pacific Flight Amid Storms
Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh depart Washington for a perilous voyage to Japan in the Lockheed Sirius. A first leg to North Haven Maine was cut short by a thunderstorm and radio tests were unsatisfactory as the trip shifts across Canada Alaska to Japan via the Aleutians. He and his wife plan to handle wireless duties. In Berlin Germany seeks rescue from financial collapse amid demonstrations while Britain backs Germany’s effort to recover.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Mrs. Lindbergh
Washington
Japan
North Haven
Maine
Plushing Key
New York
Canada
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
MacDonald
Lirham
Stimson
United States
Germany
Berlin
Britain
Orman H. H. Da vis joins League of Nations finance panel
Orman H. H. Davis, eminent financier and Bank of New York trustee, accepts a post on the League of Nations Grace Committee. He will attend a European credit conference August 2 and a finance committee meeting in September, returning by October with no need to relinquish U.S. interests. The Wickersham commission reports condemn U.S. prison conditions as antiquated and brutal, urging legal reforms to reduce crime and improve reform.
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Orman HH. Daviz
America
Bank of New York and Trust Company
Grance
League of Nations
Europe
Finance Committee
League Io
Davis
NE More
Wickersham Commission
Ergel
Marble column dedication honors Perry at Put-in-Bay Ohio
A belated dedication ceremony marked the 1812 Lake Erie victory by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. The 390 foot column’s 15 year completion led to remarks by Senator James Bambton Lewis, Gov. George White, and other officials.
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Aiday
Put-in- Bay
Ohio
Oliver Haram Perry
Lake Erie
James Bambton Lewis
Ilinois
George White
Webster P. Huntington
Columbus
John HA. Clarke
Cleveland
United States Supreme Court
Edwin A. Scott
A. W. J. Flack
Canadian Club of
New York
Man Roamed Americas 20 000 Years Ago Say Scientists
AAA S science panel reports evidence from earth deposits and Nevada gypsum cave finds suggesting humans existed in America during the last ice age. Archaeologists Brown Stock Harrington argue early man hunted extinct sloths and primitive horses, dating deposits to around 29 000 years ago.
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Pasadena
Cali
America
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United States
EL Mc Barrington
Southwest Museum
Barnum Brown
American Museum of Natural History
Chester Stock
California Institute of Technology
Doctor Harrington
Doctor Stock
Boulder Dam
Nevada
D. A. &. Bomer
University of Chicago
de. Philp S& Smith
United States Geological Survey
Alaska
Bering Straft
Earth
Prof
B. Gu
Vault Guards Nation's Timepieces
A subterranean vault at the naval observatory houses the nation's clocks. An inner hollow tile vault circulates hot water to maintain 85 degrees with an 18 inch air gap to an outer stone or cement vault beneath the frost line. Navy plans two more clocks as upgrades while the current timepieces have served 80 years.
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Washington
Naval Observatory
Navy
Pittsburgh Footfall Surpasses City Population, Study Finds
A 1920s Pittsburgh survey reports yearly footfalls of about checkpoints, estimating 157 pounds per resident. H E Meller notes downtown soot fell after central heating adoption, but overall soot remained higher than 1912-18 levels, with total weight likely exceeding the city population.
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Pittsburgh
H. E. Meller
Bureau of Smoke Regulation
Children’s Books Sent to New Police Library in Lynn
Soon after the Lynn Massachusetts police headquarters opened a truckload of children’s books arrived to stock the new library. Officers were astonished to find the volume included titles for young readers and expected to inspire local youth.
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Lynn
Mass
Seventeen Lord's Prayers on a Dime Claim
Albany SN reports Joseph Bertasso claims a record by writing seventeen Lord's Prayers on a space the size of a dime. He says practice enabled this feat after starting with five prayers, and notes a 16,093 word history of the United States on a postcard.
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Albany, SN
Joseph &. A. Bertasso
Bertasso
Certasso
United States
Missing Complete Sets in Scout and Trapper Book Shipment
The shipment lacked a full run of Girl Scout Adventure books Tom Swift tales the Boy Trapper series and Elale Dinsmore works leaving several titles absent from the consignment.
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Elale Dinsmore
Appendicitis Ends Blood Donor's Long Service
Buffalo physician reports Joseph E B Lynch thirty two with a record of donating 101 pints of blood to save over ninety people is recovering after an appendicitis operation. Doctors say his blood, most suited for transfusion, could have stopped at 160 points but an emergency required his donation.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph EB. Lynch
Lynch
Woman 87 Claims 172 Living Descendants
Deep River Iowa. Mrs Margaret Kerkova eighty seven claims172 living descendants. She has 65 grandchildren eight great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. She is mother of eight living children. She came to America in a sailboat in 1855 and married at age sixteen.
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Deep River
Iowa
Margaret Kerkova
America
Wisconsin Teacher Retires After 48 Years in Classroom
Edward Smith, 64, ends a 43 year teaching span at Trinity Lutheran School in Sheboygan after submitting his resignation. He has served the Trinity school directors for 39 years and will finish at the end of the current term.
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Sheboygan
Wis
Edward Smith
Trinity Luteran School
Trinity School
Machines That Are Almost Human Inventions From 1921
In New York a $50 bill was placed in a five foot safe with an unseen ultraviolet ray triggering a burglar alarm if the ray is broken. A Springfield gate robot counts passing cars without contact using light beams. The fever tube heats rooms via unseen rays, possibly replacing radiators. Scientists see unseen rays aiding fraud detection and security applications.
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New York City
Nolarm
Wes
New York Iluminating Engineering Society
Westinghéuge Lamp Company
Springfield
Mass
Radio Research
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. T
W. St. Whitney
Whitney
Western Newspaper Union
Curious local holideya names in northern England villages
In Huddersfield district and surrounding villages a variety of holiday terms appears. Slaithwaite used the title San jemis into recent times, while Henley has a feast, Almondbury a rush, Longwood a thump, Kirkheaton a rant, and Meltham a bartleby. Dozens more likely exist, with wakes and feasts dominating.
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Curicus
England
Huddersfield
Slaithwaite
Henley
Almondbury
Longwood
Kirkheaton
Meltham
Bartleby
The Blink of Cat Eyes Guides Night Time Aim
A New York writer notes that in parts of China people gauge time by a cat's eyes, and the practice echoes here as a cat’s eyes gleam on a fence at night signaling BAN to leap with a missile. The piece frames this as a commentary on accuracy and perception.
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China
New York
Ban
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