Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freeman, a quiet, cool-headed Pennsylvanian of 55, was put in charge of all naval vessels in Cuban waters. He went ashore at Havana, had his picture taken with Ambassador Welles, returned to his flagship and, while his sailors lusted for action, sat by awaiting orders to let the iron fist fly or pocket it. Within three days a dozen destroyers encircled Cuba, with another dozen awaiting steaming orders. The Mississippi hovered off Morro Castle. All available ships on the Atlantic Coast were on the move. At Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding...
...whole job would require about four years, directly employ about 4,000 men. The Port Authority, operator of the present Holland Tube, got $10,000,000 in quick cash to order 50,000 tons of cast iron tunnel segments, 2,000 tons of special tunnel nuts and bolts...
Died. Francis William ("Iron Major") Cavanaugh, 57, football coach at Fordham. Dartmouth, Boston College, Holy Cross for which he produced many a potent team during his 30-odd years in the sport; of cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia following an operation; on his chicken farm at Marshfield, Mass...
...afternoon before her match with Miss Van Wie, Enid Wilson spent three hours practicing iron shots. She said later that was what queered her. On the first hole she drove badly, took a six. On the fourth, her approach was wild and she took three putts. On the fifth, her iron shot went into a bunker, cost her a 7. She took 44 strokes to the turn to Virginia Van Wie's smooth 37. It left her six down and she was still six down at the 13th green, where the match ended. It set the stage...
Last week the following were news: William G. Mather, Cleveland tycoon, president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (miner of iron ore in Minnesota and Michigan, operator of a fleet of 20 Great Lakes freighters, manufacturer of charcoal and wood chemicals), last week retired from active management of the company which was given him in 1891 by his father, the founder. Elected to the newly created post of chairman, he was succeeded as president by Edward B. Greene, chair-man of the executive committee of Cleveland Trust...