Word: ironclads
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...natural harbors are numerous, but their usefulness is reduced by huge tides. Inchon, the port of Seoul is bedeviled by 29-foot tides. The best harbor is Pusan, now held by the US from which in 1592 the Koreans sent a turtle-shaped ship, the world's first ironclad, to beat the invading Japanese...
Only in the matter of handkerchiefs were London's arbiters of gentlemanly elegance inclined to be lenient. Of course two handkerchiefs a day ("one to show, one to blow") was still the ironclad rule, but in a pinch, Savile Row's spokesmen agreed, a hard-pressed gentleman might be forgiven for using yesterday's shower for today's blower...
Deadly Grip. Through most of his ups & downs Birdsall Sweet kept his spirits high, learned to make the best of his ironclad life. He learned checkers, chess and cards, dictated his plays to a nurse. He followed baseball avidly, improved his bridge with the help of visiting Vassar girls. He read, with a nurse turning every page, and worked his eyes so that he soon had to have strong glasses. Last year he learned canasta...
...enormous expense. But the Russian atomic explosion had drastically clipped the atomic lead upon which a great deal of U.S. security and strategy was based. A group of top scientists went to work on a new analysis. Their report: granted a huge concentration of effort, a guarantee of ironclad priorities and some two to four billion dollars, they could, in from two to four years, build the necessary tools for making the H-bomb with a fair chance of success...
...Eastern roads had persuasive arguments to prove that their plight was not their fault. With investors shying away from railroads the carriers had trouble financing major improvements, except what could be done out of earnings. Furthermore, the ironclad rules of the railway brotherhoods kept railroad costs high by featherbedding. Worse still, the railroads had suffered from too much regulation, notably, out-of-date rules intended to keep them from becoming transportation monopolies-something which the buses and airlines now prevent, anyway...