Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When arrested. Mrs. Fortescue was a woman of iron. Once on the Alton, however, her nerves went to pieces and she was put under the care of a physician. She sobbed and cried on her bed. Her speech was so broken and incoherent that her attorney, Montgomery Winn, could talk with her only a few minutes at a time. Lieut. Massie sat by her hour after hour, trying to console and assure her. Her hysterical condition was aggravated by her anxiety for her husband, Major Fortescue, ill with pneumonia in far-off Manhattan. She wanted him by her side when...
...People's Commissars. It has charge of all factories, mines, mills, is a super-Department of Commerce. Its chairman, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, is to Josef Stalin as Herbert Hoover was to Presidents Harding & Coolidge. Last week Stalin's Hoover took charge of the new subdivision of Heavy Industry (coal, iron, steel, et al.) and the Soviet press spent much time explaining that he lost no prestige by so doing...
...including the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Prince Arthur of Connaught-have used "Rangefinder Rapier clubs," approved by the Royal & Ancient St. Andrews Golf Club, for two years. The shafts-made of steel, with thread and tapelock to fit any head-cost $5. Wood heads cost $6, iron heads...
...Burgess' case that refers to his showing factory managers that it pays to hire scholars. Twenty and more years ago he was professor of applied electro-chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Manufacturers hesitated to use his novel ideas concerning the electrolytic purification of iron, dry batteries, corrosion. He organized his own companies, his own industrial laboratory, quit the university. He now heads five corporations capitalized for $3,000,000, hiring 1,000 .persons and producing goods worth $6,000,000 yearly...
Died. Jordan Lawrence Mott, 74, of Manhattan, onetime president of J. L. Mott Iron Works (now in receivership) ; of heart disease; in Nelson Harbor, Bahama Islands, B. W. L, on board the yacht of his friend Allison Armour...