Word: irone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...third. Without cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat are to be curtailed (although the young ladies on the stage seem plump and warm enough); to picture them tucked into a dormitory full of little white beds which would have very little terror for U. S. boarding school...
...Plan called for pig iron at an average rate of 25.000 tons per day. Actual production is 17,000 tons. Even so-due partly to Russian progress under the Plan and partly to backsliding in other nations-Russia has climbed among pig iron producers from sixth to second place. In oil she has mounted from third place to second, in coal from sixth to third, in machine building from fourth to second, in production of electric energy from eighth to third-yet in none of these categories except oil has Russia fulfilled her Plan...
Starting in 1928 with 26,740 pre-Plan tractors, the Soviet Union has now increased its stable of iron steeds to 147,800. Precisely at this point-at the juncture of Industry and Agriculture symbolized by the Great God Tractor-the two largest phases of the Plan got out of step with each other, produced clashes and repercussions which have rocked all Russia...
...Comrade Daniel Sulimov, a henchman close to Dictator Stalin, plaintively declared last week, "Many of our local people are unable to think except in terms of big construction projects, such as railways, coal pits, blast furnaces, iron and steel mills. They have not yet learned that they could contribute greatly to the efficient operation of the heavy industries by paying attention to the development of local industries. They must learn...
...possible for Professor Reginald Aid-worth Daly (Harvard) to estimate the Earth's outer crust as 40 mi. thick in continental areas (thicker under seas); the next shell 1,800 mi. thick, composed of glassy rock more rigid than steel; the core a ball of molten iron 7,000 mi. in diameter, under 15 to 50 million pounds pressure per square inch...