Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 50 k.w.h. at 3? per k.w.h. ($1.50) which in the average home will operate lights, iron, toaster, percolator, vacuum cleaner for one month...
Argentine wheat farmers, overdue last week on their spring sowing, could not get a plow into the ground that a long drought had baked iron-hard. And due sometime next month was a dread enemy: the scourge of locusts trying to repeat their last year's feat of eating clean two northern provinces. Last week brought the farmers a good turn on both counts. Rain fell and softened the hard ground. And the Ministry of Agriculture got under way early against the locusts by announcing $5,000,000 worth of contracts for 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron locust...
...contracts brought good news to British ironmasters, not so good news to U. S. ironmasters. Favored by the pending British-Argentine trade treaty, British companies will deliver two-thirds of the 12,000 mi. of sheet-iron, U. S. companies the rest. The last such contract, in 1924, went entirely to U. S. companies...
...delivery next month the sheet-iron will be distributed at cost to Argentine wheat farmers to wall in their sprouting fields. The dread locusts in the hungry hopper stage will come hopping into the sheet-iron, hop short, pile up in rustling drifts. Workmen will rake them up, burn them in oil or sack them for sale to the Department of Agriculture Defense. The dried and sacked locusts will be sold abroad as fertilizer...
Near Troy, Ohio when a train crashed into her horse & buggy, killing the horse, Mrs. Anna Idemiller, 71, seized an iron ring on the front of the locomotive, held on until the train stopped, escaped with scalp injuries and a broken...