Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unnamed Captain. Another broadcaster from Berlin last week purported to be the U-boat commander who sank the carrier Courageous, for which feat he was said to have received, besides the Fuhrer's congratulations, the Iron Cross, first class, his crew the Iron Cross, second class. Excerpts from his account of that performance...
...essentials of cannon steel. Most seizures were made at control ports in the British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese ore, 7,650 of bauxite, 9,000 of iron ore, 500 of frozen beef, etc., etc.). Upon ships bound for Italian ports, especially Trieste, with cargoes suspected of ultimate German destination, the ministry was not yet cracking down...
...John Gabbert Bowman, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, is the highest-paid ($31,500) U. S. university president. He is also the bossiest. For 18 years he has ruled Pitt with an iron hand. Last week he came to the ominous pass that every dictator fears: his friends began to kick him around...
...finished steel into sheet and strip much faster than open hearth furnaces now operating feed them with ingots. Nor can the blast furnaces now in operation keep up with the open hearths. Steel making at Youngstown, Ohio dropped two points (to 80%) this week because of a shortage of iron. At Buffalo last week Bethlehem Steel blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. jump output from...
...Iron and steel: Germany $54,124,878; Britain...