Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...running crazily this way & that through the smoke, kicking tear gas cans out of the way, hurling bricks and stones at the defending troopers. The mob gathered for a charge and 13 troopers went down under the impact, their captain knocked senseless. The mob battered down the first iron door with a beam taken from a lumber yard. Somebody opened a second door from the inside...
...naval vessels of the time the instructions were to use sail on all possible occasions. The King thus learned the old sail drill which carried Nelson to victory at Trafalgar, and served in the navy during the most eventful period of its life, when it changed from oak to iron, from muzzle loading to hydraulic loading, and from sail to steam and even...
...gawpers got inside the Carnera house, a two-story structure filled with oversized modernistic furniture. The living room is frescoed with portraits of famed prizefighters. The princely guest room contains a double-size reinforced iron bed for Primo. In the adjoining bathroom is his own tub, made by welding two ordinary tubs together. An electric icebox and electric oven are in the kitchen where leathery Mama Giobanna Carnera last week was sweating heroically over enormous meals for her son and his suite...
...careful Indianapolis News last week printed a photograph of five men whose solemn expressions supplied the only possible excuse for mistaking them for convicted kidnappers. They were Steel Tycoons Myron C. Taylor. George M. Laughlin, Ernest T. Weir, Eugene G. Grace and Lawyer Nathan L. Miller, representing the American Iron & Steel Institute. The scene was not Oklahoma City but the steps of the White House, where the five had been photographed after a conference with the President...
...from 1920. Untrained as merchants, railroadmen believed that the traffic they had lost to the automobile, airplane and bus was lost for good & all; fare-cutting would merely reduce what little passenger revenue they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired gentleman from Kentucky who is generally the voice of the Southern carriers, tested the ancient law of price-cutting. Passenger traffic spurted upward. Soon a few Western roads slashed fares. Great Northern announced that local passenger traffic jumped 50%. Meeting in Chicago last fortnight the Western Association of Railway...