Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did General Johnson, by deliberately stirring up opposition, make another bid for the public's waning attention. Immediately after this field day he planned more serious business: to get all code authorities together to try to iron out code difficulties and differences. Important question at that meeting will be whether hours of work under codes can be still further reduced to cut into unemployment. Last week the General claimed that the NRA had made 3,000,000 jobs. However, the General admitted that there are now 9,000,000 unemployed to which some 3,000,000 will soon...
...blind sailing orders to the Azores where they would be told their final destination. Westward through the Canal passed a string of empty freighters bound for Chile and more nitrate. Big buyers were France, England, and Russia. Also noted in the Canal Zone was a heavy movement of scrap iron, steel, lead, cotton-the makings of war-from the U. S. to Japan...
...fire a cashier had two melons left over from lunch. He put them in the safe. The fire melted the iron, exploded the melons. They dissolved into a thick juice that covered what was beneath them. Last week salvagers found 36,000 Turkish pounds ($28,000) preserved in melon juice...
Sandino was one of the most colorful personalities of Central American history. The man who set up a government of his own in the wilderness, who ruled his men with an iron hand, who married to the music of gunfire, who rallied his followers to the cause of Nicaraguan independence, was more than a more jungle bandit--he was the personification of revolt against American imperialism. Death to sandino was but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously. His all-consuming passion was liberty...
...piano has remained the same for fifty years except for occasional experiments with double keyboards or more recently with electric tones. The innovating factor in the Clear-Tone instrument is that the ends of the strings are attached to steel bars and adjustable screws, not, as usually, to the iron frame, which is inharmonic to the tone of the strings, according to the inventor, Mr. E. W. Powers. A second sound board of maple, also increases the sonority. The inventor does not yet claim perfection for his instrument, but its development should revolutionize the piano to a certain extent...