Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were piling in so fast that many companies had to start allocating steel and reopen marginal facilities. U.S. Steel's Chairman Roger Blough reported that orders were being received at a faster rate than at any time in 1958, as Big Steel fired up seven of 14 open-hearth furnaces idled at its Pennsylvania Homestead Works last March. Equally cheering, Blough told stockholders that the company earned $90,728,989 or $1.57 a share in the fourth quarter, topping the $90,096,731 or $1.56 a share it netted a year earlier. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. relit...
Animals are nice, dogs especially nice. Ask anyone they'll tell you the dog is nicest of all. Man's best friend in fact, or so they say. We think dogs are nice, too, nice in the home, before the roaring mid-December hearth, playing with the children. But dogs snarling at depositors in the Cambridge Trust are hard to take, and St. Bernards who challenge the road-rights of Massachusetts Avenue automobiles and pedestrians hardly help solve the problem of traffic in the Square...
...race was engineered by using long boards for run-ways, a hearth for the finish line, and bits of cheese as lures for the anxious mice...
...needs of Red China, Comrade Soong Ching-ling has a warm and open hearth. When the nation's mass drive for steel started a month ago, the 68-year-old lady had her secretaries build a small furnace in the garden of her Shanghai home. There-said Radio Peking-the secretaries now toil blithely from dawn until evening, producing as much as 341 Ibs. of good-quality steel a day. Last week, according to commune knowledge, the lady joined the workers in the garden, saying: "Making steel also tempers people." As vice chairman of the Standing Committee...
Ireland. To the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart: "Ireland is a land of the smile and the tear. Also, alas, what a flood of tears, drowning out the joy and laughter of home and hearth, has poured through when the dyke of temperance has been shattered...