Business: Suits

To be noted among last week's lawsuits were two of the first water, one of lesser import:

Youngstown: "What'll you pay us for our property?" said grizzled old James Anson Campbell, founder-president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. to suave, cool-headed Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., one day last February. Thus informally, according to Mr. Grace's testimony last week, was negotiated the Bethlehem-youngstown merger, to prevent which Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland, big Youngstown stockholder, has had his lawyers at work for 16 weeks in an epochal fight (TIME, March...

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