Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Compared to the light of Tammany's Boss Curry, he said, "The word of Flynn [McKee's boss] is as light as a half-burned match." And should Judge Seabury, LaGuardia's boss, come into power, "He will, in my opinion, give us an example of iron discipline and arbitrary action that will make the town sigh for the gentleness of Croker or the softness of Murphy...
...Iron & Steel Institute (which under its new NRA code had just begun to make official weekly reports on steel operations) slapped John Stockholder square on his grin with the announcement that steel operations were at 26.1% of capacity, not anywhere near the 59% high of the third quarter...
...orders for rails to tempt the four steel companies into shading their price from $40 a ton (TIME, Oct. 16). Efficient Mr. Eastman promptly came through with orders for 844,000 tons. U. S. Steel's Taylor, Bethlehem's Grace, Inland's Block and Colorado Fuel & Iron's Roeder, the only railmakers in the U. S., agreed to submit strictly independent bids. Rail rolling, however, is no cut-throat business. For eleven years the price never varied a cent from $43 a ton. Last year it was downed $3. No responsible steelman has ever volunteered...
...mixture of metallic chlorides-sodium chloride (table salt), anhydrous aluminum chloride and ferric chloride. The mixture turns to liquid at 302° F. and flows as freely as water. At 1,500° F. it is still liquid. Apart from its high heat capacity, "NS fluid" does not corrode iron or other ordinary metals and does not decompose while in a closed heating system. Its expansion is limited. It can be melted and resolidified in glass tubes without breaking them. One Ernst Sander owns the German patent on "NS fluid." The stuff can be made and sold cheaply. Dr. Little...
...There was a serpent beside the apple, however: the price of rails must be reduced from $40 to $35 a ton. Having pondered, the six U. S. makers of rails (Carnegie Steel, Illinois Steel, Tennessee Coal, subsidiaries of U. S. Steel; Bethlehem Steel; Inland Steel: Colorado Fuel & Iron) last week decided that the apple was tempting enough to warrant swallowing half the serpent. They posted a new price...