Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submarines, airplane carriers, military air forces, heavy artillery and tanks are nothing but weapons for national defense they cannot be denied to Germany. If other nations fortify their frontiers with walls of iron and concrete, by what right does one think of denying Germany this protection...
...Migraine Feels. The brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight...
When red freight-car corpuscles are flowing through the arteries of U.S. business, the plants of three great companies are filled with the crash of hydraulic forges, the pounding of hundreds of hammers, making those mighty creatures of the industrial age, railroad locomotives, Iron Horses. The gestation period of an Iron Horse is about four months, yet the three companies can easily turn out a total of 2,000 locomotives yearly. In the past year the three companies-Baldwin Locomotive Works, American Locomotive Co., Lima Locomotive Works-received among them precisely one order for a new locomotive. It came from...
...immediate cause of the stalling of the locomotive industry. But this year's situation is only an accentuation of a long trend. In 1928 Baldwin made fewer locomotives than in 1873. Modern locomotives (a good-sized one costs about $100,000) last longer and do more work. The Iron Horse population has gone down steadily and it is conceivable that in future years all the U. S. railroads will not buy more than 200 new locomotives a year...
...power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down Iron Horses can be turned out into the yards indefinitely. At present it is estimated that 10,000 of them are in need of re-shoeing...