Business: No Hoodoo

Most superstitious persons avoid the number 13, long noted as a bad luck bringer. Some, to show lack of superstition, make 13 their favorite number. To this second class, President Thomas Moses of the United States Fuel Company, might well become a member.

His last week's appointment to head the fuel company (which, as a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation, employs 40,000 men) came after 13 years as its General Manager. His predecessor died on June 13 and the letter asking him to attend the meeting at which his appointment was...

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