Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chose to kill Germany's export trade with the U. S. as the easiest way to kill the U. S.'s export trade with Germany. For years these two forms of trade-normally independent of each other within limits-have been rigidly interlocked by the Nazis' iron rule that Germany buys only where Germany sells and in substantially balancing amounts. Therefore last week Dr. Schacht was not simply cutting off Germany's nose to spite her face but, in complex fashion, was cutting ultimate U. S. exports to Germany when he abruptly cut German exports...
...Claire, Wis., when the Chicago & North Western's mile-a-minute "400" flyer halted briefly, police found Floyd Newman clinging to the locomotive's headlight. Remarked Floyd Newman: "It's the fastest piece of iron I ever rode...
...entrance to the Alabama State Fair Grounds outside Birmingham last week WPA workmen raised timber scaffolding around the largest cast-iron statue in the world. An intricate block & tackle was set up and, to the banging of hammers & chisels the head of Birmingham's "Iron Man," marvel of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, was pulled off and lowered to the ground. After 30 years of neglect Birmingham's Vulcan was about to be moved to the top of the same Red Mountain from which much of the ore he is made...
...organization that later became Birmingham's Chamber of Commerce met for luncheon to decide what sort of exhibit the Pittsburgh of the South should send to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at St. Louis. Secretary James Arthur MacKnight had an idea: Birmingham was famed for its iron foundries. Why not a huge statue of Vulcan, something to hold its own with New York's Statue of Liberty, but made from Alabama cast iron...
...never forgot Birmingham's cast-iron pride were John Henry Adams, author of the grandiloquent inscription, and Thomas Joy. As a child Thomas Joy sold the first newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed...