Business & Finance: Steel War (cont.)

The citizens of Youngstown, Ohio, last week had their most exciting seven days since the week of April 6, 1917, when the self-conscious steel town mobilized for War. In the War week, Youngstown went forth to meet the enemy; last week, the enemy was not only at Youngstown's gates, but actually within them. For the stockholders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. were assembled, in person or by proxy, to determine whether the city's chief support and chief crown was to survive as an independent company or...

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