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Word: irone (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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BUCHAREST--A new military government, using stern measures to wipe out remnants of the Nazi Iron Guard organization, tonight lined up and shot nine of the Nazi terrorists who assassinated Premier Armand Calinescu in the main street of the city...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Guilty Pastor. One night last month dull, unbeautiful Wanda Dworecki, 18, was strangled and beaten to death near a Camden, N. J., cemetery. Police noted that her seamy, brooding father, the Rev. Walter ("Iron Mike") Dworecki (of the First Polish Baptist Church) had insured her for $2,695, that he had once been charged with lucrative arson by a fire insurance company. Last week a onetime boarder in the Dworecki home, 21-year-old Peter Schewchuk, confessed that at Pastor Dworecki's behest he killed Wanda while her parent was out preaching, got 50? for the job from Father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crime | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Another sore minority in Poland are the 4,500,000 Ukrainians in the South East. As recently as last April young Polish roughs were beating Ukrainian ringleaders with sticks and iron bars, wrecking their shops and buildings, on the grounds that, plotting revolt, they had hid munitions in churches, machine guns in homes. At that time Ukrainian politicians were said to be itching to throw off Polish shackles even if it meant taking on German ones. But last week Undo (Ukrainian National Democratic Union) declared that Ukrainians would fight beside, not against, Poles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: National Glue | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...incendiary bombs, military men favor thermite, a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder which burns at a temperature of 3,000° C. (about 5,400° F.). Thermite was known before, and used as an incendiary during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science & War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Philadelphia: Thousands of tons of scrap iron lay stranded on the docks, its eventual destination uncertain and unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Cargo Jam? | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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