Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with Tom Caldwell at the controls and B. J. Dexter biting his knuckles in its luxurious caboose, to race from Chicago to Boulder City at 100 m. p. h., carrying an "iron lung", to save Allan Dexter's life. Before it reaches its destination, The Silver Streak barely escapes being wrecked at a drawbridge which closes a split second before the train arrives at full speed; rounds a hairpin turn at 100 m. p. h.; narrowly misses being derailed by a sleepy...
Cinemaddicts will find it good melodrama as well as spectacular advertising, an up-to-date revival of a time-honored cinema formula, in which implements like Diesel engines, iron lungs and Boulder Dam are more exciting than the people...
...revolutionary chaos and was now without question the leading power on the continent of Europe. Twice the Emperor had led the people into war, both times successfully. Meanwhile a legend had grown up around him. He was considered variously as a Mephistopheles, a weakling, a fool, and an iron man. Now, in 1870 the time had arrived to test the legend. Prepared "to the last gaiter button," the famous French army, victors of Sebastopol and Solforino, awaited the coming of the Prussians...
...Estes answered her telephone. Next day she was up & around the house. The second day she took her new baby motoring. Four days later she began to feed the infant the juice of raw vegetables. Last week, dressed in trousers and zipper shirt, she sat down on an iron lawn chair and posed for a picture with her 72-year-old husband and the ten children she has borne during 15 years of marriage...
...handsome, curly-headed, iron-jawed chairman first discussed the effects of new banking legislation on his institution. He noted a payment of $225,000 to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., an additional liability for $676,000 and an unlimited liability after July 1 unless the deposit insurance law is modified. Yet, Mr. Baker found that new Federal laws as a whole had affected his bank "but little, except in one respect." Three directors had to resign because they were connected with the securities business...