Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin's spokesman worked the assembly up to an appropriate pitch of optimism. But he also admitted 1931 gaps in the Five-Year Plan, gaps which hundreds of delegates knew to exist in the places from which they came. Neither Russia's transport system, nor her production of steel, iron or coal, nor the general productivity of labor in Soviet factories, admitted Premier Molotov, have fulfilled the 1931 schedules of the Five-Year Plan...
...every contractor knows, cast and wrought iron are many times as rust-resisting as steel, hut they have not the tensile strength necessary for building members...
...happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon and magnesium gases shot out into the air burning with a white flame. The furnace was kept at 3,000° for more than five hours. Iron was put in. It turned to gas, formed a carbide, remained as such while the temperature was raised toward the 3,600° vaporization point of graphite. At this point a blue & white flame shot out of the opening. Experimenter Chesnut, trying for a still higher temperature, left the power...
...money to cover the loan but the villain (Irving Pichel) refuses to accept a check. In two previous versions of the picture-one with Sessue Hayakawa and one with Pola Negri-this was the moment for the big scene where the heroine was branded with a red hot iron, on the back. As a novelty in this version, Irving Pichel applies the iron to Tallulah Bankhead's front,* murmuring vicious cliches as he does so. A court room scene comes later. The picture is well mounted but the plot is not nearly so diverting as Miss Bankhead...
Left. By the late Iron & Shipping Tycoon Samuel Mather (TIME, Oct. 26), an estate of perhaps $50,000,000; to Western Reserve University ($2,000,000); Cleveland Community Fund ($150,000 annually); Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington; Kenyon College and its Bexley Hall (theological), and St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo ($100,000 each); to other charitable and educational institutions, a total of nearly $4,000,000. The residue goes to two sons, a daughter and daughter-in-law, in equal shares...