Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry was to be divided into a dozen groups: 1) mining and rough metals; 2) machinery and electrical goods; 3) iron and other metal products; 4) building materials, glass and pottery; 5) chemicals, oils and paper; 6) leather, textiles and clothing; 7) food; 8) handwork; 9) commerce; 10) banking; 11) insurance; 12) transportation. Each group will have a leader, not elected by the industry, but chosen by Nazi authorities. Appointed chief leader last week...
...Sweden, for seven years at 51%. It would shatter once and for all the twelve-year financial blockade by governments against the U. S. S. R. The money must be spent in Sweden, would buy high grade steel for tools, electrical machinery, ball bearings, iron...
...their sacred duties the job of preserving the peace and security of the Harvard Yard and its inmates, whose safety and quiet are guaranteed by the daily ritual of the closing of the gates at sundown. Every evening at six o'clock sharp the clang of the iron protals on Massachusetts Avenue cuts off Virtually all approach to the buildings from that flank except from the vicinity of Boylston Hall...
...incorporate" and to "organize" the state means, in the modern context of opposed class interests, the choice of one of those classes. Mr. Roosevelt can come out baldly for the industrialists, forbid the right of strike, set wages, and run the whole private profit economic structure with the iron hand, not of court orders and injunctions, but of executive dictatorship. Or he can encourage and strengthen labor to the point where it will revolt, not only against the profit system, but against his own middle of the road administration, and another executive dictatorship, in the interests of the laboring classes...
...largest weekly gain since the rise began last May. The total of 1,658-040,000 k.w.h. was second highest since the New Deal and equal to 1931. Steel operations continued to expand with new rail orders supplementing the heavy demand from can-makers and the automobile industry. Iron Age estimated operations at 49% of capacity-highest since last August. Production of 4,200,000 tons in the first two months of the year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period of 1933. Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast the trend of steel activity, rose...