Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...IRON, BLOOD AND PROFITS-George Seldes-Harper...
...Skoda. Their interlocking connections (which Authors Engelbrecht & Hanighen show in charts) are almost incredibly complex; the only real competitor any of them has is peace. Says Author Seldes: "It is a recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed wire helped defend Verdun...
Light-haired, blue-eyed, with a long, lean, handsome face, wearing grey trousers and a green varsity sweater, he strode across Dartmouth's campus from honor to honor. Each autumn he played an "iron man" game at guard on the football team, each winter swam for the varsity, each spring hurled weights on the track team. And each spring his classmates re-elected him president. In junior year he was chosen president of the junior honor society, Green...
...ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene by one Samuel Hershey included newshawks, a microphone, a vendor of hot dogs and miniature crucifixes, a few indolent policemen. Independent José de Creeft showed a picador made of stove pipes and scrap iron. Independent Lucienne Bloch, daughter of Composer Ernest Bloch (see p. 48). showed a panel of photographs of the destroyed Rivera-Rockefeller murals. A picture of a clock stopped at 9 o'clock referred to the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti...
...floor of the ancient rambling London Stock Exchange was bedlam all last week. Brokers shoved and shouted as the boom in West African gold stocks spread to other issues. Lights burned brightly in the City (financial district) until midnight as clerks toiled over books. Iron and steel shares were up on news that March steel production was 829,700 tons, highest since the October 1929 peak. Government securities soared in anticipation of this week's budget announcements. A speculator named K. H. Williams was reported to have made $2,500,000 in West Africans alone. London's financial...