Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheer. Meantime U. S. business has peppered the Press with items of good cheer. Cleveland machinery makers are three months behind on their orders. February burlap consumption rose 1,000,000 yd. to 61,000,000. Manhattan hotel rentals increased 11% over a year ago. Michigan and Wisconsin iron mines returned to five-day weeks in anticipation of the most active year since 1930. Mergers, deals and expansion plans have again become regular news (see p. 80). J. P. Morgan & Co. restored all Depression salary cuts...
...case last year, Coach Jack Carr will send his men through a two-week season after vacation to get a line on some of the booters available next fall, and to iron out at leisure any misconceptions on fundamentals...
Radcliffe students resent being forced to walk through the Yard on their way to classes. Like the Yardlings, who last week refused to take Colonel Apted's iron-handed bicycle ruling lying down, the girls at a late hour last night started circulating petitions demanding the revocation of the law. Neither the doughty Colonel nor University Hall could be reached to make a statement on this latest move...
...young Minnesota Swede who had been a diamond-drill operator in the iron mines until the slack season of 1914, Carl Wickman became the Hupmobile salesman in the bare little town of Hibbing. Unable to sell the first Hupp sent him, he began a small livery business. Collections on his first trip amounted to $2.25. Presently he added a partner, another automobile, scheduled trips. By 1918 the company was making some $40,000, had 18 ramshackle busses in northern Minnesota...
...Labor's blood to boiling point last week- the White Paper would virtually put industry throughout the British Isles on a basis of Wartime control by the Government over the activities of Capital & Labor. Under a Prime Minister who is the leisured scion of Baldwins Ltd., hereditary British iron founders, Labor considered itself sure last week to get the meagre end of a generous square deal for Capital. Under the White Paper scheme, selected British firms capable of armament production would be guaranteed in peace time sufficient Government orders to keep their works operating profitably, ready for instant changeover...