Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of a dreary Munich bedroom floor two mice nibble every morning at a piece of sugar set out for them by one Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born veteran of the Imperial German Army, wounded, gassed, Iron Crossed. Six other men as obscure as himself suggest that he join their German Labor Party, give him Membership Card No. 7, written in longhand. Meeting on Wednesday, the Executive Committee of the Party elect No. 7 their Chief of Propaganda, are amazed when he rounds up a meeting of 130, flabbergasted when he sweeps all before him with a loose but passionate...
...false, post-War prosperity induced in the Fatherland by a flood of U. S. loans. These loans enabled Germany to pay Reparations with borrowed money, turned the shackles riveted on her by the Treaty of Versailles almost into golden bracelets. When Depression showed the bracelets to be iron, Germany-in-chains was ready to break them by turning to the doctrines of Messiah Hitler who had been preaching repudiation from the first...
...Still standing are the outer walls of Silesian sandstone and much of the interior, ornately marbled. France paid for the whole building as part of the Franco-Prussian War indemnity. Above the main door a grim stone figure of St. George frowns with the face of Iron Chancellor Bismarck...
Last week Charlie Payson made news with another suit. This time it was for Rustless Iron Corp. of America of which he is chairman and chief backer, and this time he won a clear victory. Rustless Iron was launched in 1926 to exploit the U. S. rights to a simple process for making stainless steel, developed by a fat, genial Briton from Sheffield named Ronald Wild. The Wild process combines chromium and steel in one step where other processes take three steps. Shortly before Metallurgist Wild retired because of poor health in 1931, Charlie Payson became visible in the light...
...cans after opening. "Under proper conditions of storage," said the Bureau, "food is perfectly safe . . . spoils no faster and no slower in the open can than in any other container." Some acid foods "like fruit and tomatoes, when stored in an open can, do tend to dissolve iron. This may give the food a sightly metallic taste that is not harmful. If the label on the can advises removing the contents as soon as the can is opened, it is because the canners think that an open can, partly filled with food, is not attractive in appearance...