Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English King's yachting cruise into a demonstration against the Yugoslavian Regency with organized shouting at every port of "Long Live Democratic Monarchy! Down with Dictatorship Royal or Otherwise! Welcome to King Edward As a Symbol of Our Destiny!" News of any such demonstrations Yugoslavia's iron censorship could be counted on to suppress...
...Luxembourg Gardens on Dec. 7, 1815. Called by Napoleon "the bravest of the brave," the hero of Elchingen, Friedland, Redinha, Borodino and the retreat from Moscow had sworn allegiance to Bourbon Louis XVIII on the Empire's fall, set out to bring Napoleon to Paris in an iron cage when he returned from Elba, joined him instead with his whole army. After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned to a traitor's death. Following the execution his corpse lay on the ground for a quarter-hour, was then delivered to his family who placed it in a lead casket...
...fatal mistake was made when [ the Committee for Industrial Organization] flouted the decision of the last convention of the A. F. of L. . . . and prevented the Executive Council from carrying out the convention's instructions 'to inaugurate, manage, promote and conduct an organizing campaign among the iron and steel workers at the earliest possible date. . . .' The sum total achieved by the Committee for Industrial Organization thus far is nothing whatever except division, discord and confusion within the ranks of organized labor.'' Back slugged the strong and scornful leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization...
Villain of the piece is Jante, the small town in Denmark where Espen grew up, and from whose iron influence on his poverty-ridden, unhappy childhood he never fully recovered. Even when he left home, shipped as a sailor to the U. S., worked as a lumberjack in Canada, married and settled in Norway, he found Jante everywhere, its belittling, ugly standards the almost universal law of life. Because he hated and feared Jante, suddenly saw the bully who took his girl as the personification of all Jante stood for, Espen killed him and felt little remorse...
...Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge which no tester had ever thought of reproducing in the laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron supports of the bridge, those tiny particles were driven into the steel wires, wedging apart the fine crystals of the annealed steel, causing the wire to snap. Coarse-grained, cold-drawn steel wire was found to resist this minute destructive process...