Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision reminded the world last week of the rich rewards which frightened Europe was willing to pay 120 years ago to anyone who could beat Napoleon. The present Duke, still a fervent foxhunter at 84, is the grandson of the Iron Duke, was three years old when the latter died. The title Duke of Wellington and the right to bear the Union Jack on his coat of arms is but a small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad...
...enemy could reach island Venice by land. Navigation was difficult in the lagoon that separates it from the mainland. Venetians skated over the shallows in flat-bottomed gondolas, floated their houses on piles in the alluvial mud, cherished their "splendid isolation." They lost part of it when an iron railway viaduct was strung across the Laguna Venetia in 1846. But not until last week did a road, of brick and stone and concrete, ever attach Venice, "Pearl of the Adriatic," to Italy's mainland...
Police found an autobomba, rigged by three students, one the son of a National University engineering professor. Supposedly based on an invention of U. S. gangsters, it was an automobile with an iron crib slung underneath. In the crib were 350 lb. of dynamite and TNT, wired to the handbrake and the magneto. Its makers planned to abandon it in front of Havana's police headquarters. When police released the handbrake to drive it away, the huge charge would blow police and headquarters to scraps. The three riggers were whisked off to jail...
...face, waving to his parents and fiancee at the finish, Pawson broke the tape in 2 hr. 31 min. 1.6 sec. - no less than 34 sec. below the Olympic marathon record, a full two minutes better than the record for the Boston run. Eighth last week was iron-legged old Clarence DeMar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won seven Boston Marathons, finished second or third in four...
...dressmaking is done. Big scissor years were 1928 and 1929. People who then would pay $1 or $1.25 for scissors now want them for 49? retail. Big dressmaking companies use cutting machines, not scissors. Manicuring scissors remain in steady demand, but buttonhole scissors are becoming obsolete and cheap German iron (not steel) scissors imported for sale at 29? harmed the U. S. scissor business. Scissors in 5? & 10? stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast iron, not forged steel, cannot be, sharpened and are used for little but paper cutting. Some moderate success...