Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeeding it. The average golfer is inclined to neglect his putting, being of the opinion that it is the long shots that are important. This, however, is a fallacy. Many a championship has been won or lost on the putting green; it is there that coolness and iron nerves are necessary...
...Steel did not so wish. Instead, the American Iron & Steel Institute asked Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson to continue its code until May 31, 1934. Further, Steel expressed "its general satisfaction with the operations of the code in its effects on the industry." Coming on the heels of last month's reaction against the NRA, the steel industry's graceful and timely gesture was much appreciated by General Johnson and the White House...
Reporting to the NRA. the Iron & Steel Institute stated that 213 of the 237 companies in the industry had between June 17 and Oct. 14 increased their wages...
...production figures, calculated from June 17, at the beginning of the summer boomlet. Since that time the industry's operating schedules had declined from 47% of capacity to 44%. But since Aug. 15. said General Johnson, finished steel prices had increased from 1.979? per Ib. to 2.015?. Pig iron had risen from $15.94 per gross...
...stern Dr. Ion Duca, titular Leader of the National Liberal Party. At once the new-Cabinet adopted a characteristic Bratianu policy: suppression of freedom of the press. Twelve pro-Peasant newspapers had their entire editions confiscated. For good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials," said a close friend of Dino Bratianu with grim humor, "will have the duty of seeing that the election, which we will soon hold...