Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard has thirteen wrought iron gates, the gift of various well-meaning classes. Seldom if ever have I seen the gates all open during the day-time. Of course, at night there is an excuse and all except a few of the gates must be kept closed so that all entrances can be adequately watched by the plain-clothes men, but in the broader light of day there is no reason why the battallion of janitors who foregather in the basement of Harvard Hall should not shoulder their rusty keys and throw wide all the gates. The portals that...
...received orders to make Germany at once what Chancellor Hitler called a "Totalitarian (One Party) State." Then they rushed clown from the roof garden to terrify the Fatherland with a series of pouncing raids which resulted in taking into custody even Herbert von Bismarck, grandnephew of the late famed Iron Chancellor...
...week went news of another milestone passed by the dying Old West. No more will roundups end with the branding fire, the pen filled with frenzied bawling and the smell of burning hair and flesh. By a process introduced by Amarillo's Dr. O. M. Franklin the branding iron is dipped in a chemical, the calf stamped as though it were a cold-storage egg. In a few days the chemical painlessly eats away hair, turns red flesh to white, leaves a clean-cut Bar X or Lazy...
...Then for two more years the furnaces were cold. Duquesne called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting a mass of oil-soaked waste. Laborers did the same through eleven other holes and Furnace No. 4 was then blown in. That night Duquesne paraded in celebration...
Chase itself bought in practically all the collateral for $22,700,000. Included were 95,000 shares of Republic Steel, 50,000 shares of Cliffs Corp. (iron ore), 98,400 shares of Firestone Tire, 77,000 shares of Goodyear, 62,000 shares of U. S. Rubber. 55,000 shares of Goodrich, 350,900 shares of Lehigh Coal & Navigation and working control of United Light & Power. What Chase intends to do with these new possessions Chase would not tell last week...