Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as seamy-faced Sir Herbert faced his annual stockholders' meeting & ordeal, up popped that spruce iron tycoon, the Earl of Dudley, to chirp: "Stockholders, I appeal to you to protect your Chairman against sniping. The sooner the Government and everyone else realizes that Vickers is a business and not a philanthropic institution the better...
Prospects of a steel strike amounted to little more than some loud bluster by William J. Spang, leader of Steel's "rank & file." But his first job was not to coerce steelmasters but to settle his factional feud with Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers' old President Michael Tighe...
Such pleasantries exhausted, the Senate passed the repealer, 53-10-16, sent it to conference to iron out disagreement on a minor Senate amendment. After that, all that would remain for a return to old-fashioned privacy on income tax returns would be the President's signature...
...paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen in their quiet way, His Majesty's Government, several days before Belgium went off the gold standard, quietly upped tariffs on iron and steel which Britain imports chiefly from Belgium, thus blunting the cut-price advantage Belgian exporters would otherwise have gained...
...from the tub, in which her husband claimed she had fallen and fatally cut the back of her head? Or was the prosecution right in contending that the blood got on the walls as Mr. Lamson repeatedly bashed in the back of his wife's head with an iron pipe...