Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normally a Great Power whose currency is at par and whose exports are equaled by no competitor would be rolling in riches, able to pay her debts twice over. Not so the Fatherland. In Berlin last week stern Chancellor Heinrich ("Iron Cross") Bruning took that famed "initiative" which President Hoover and Premier Laval recently agreed should be taken toward securing a further reduction of what Germany must pay (TIME...
...iron, production had been planned to approximate 60,000,000 tons in the last year of the Second F. Y. P. This was cut last week to 25,000,000 tons at Comrade Stalin's suggestion. More important, a switch was indicated from the program of expanding Soviet heavy industries ("to catch up with and surpass the U. S." as Stalin once put it) to concentrate at once on light industries. These would make shoes, clothing, farm implements, sewing machines and simple necessities like needles for which Soviet peasants clamor. From light industries would also come readily salable articles...
From along the iron fence on Pennsylvania Avenue the shrill voices penetrated to the White House. At first President Hoover refused to believe that the husband of Mary, his only sister, was in such unseemly trouble. Confirmation reduced the President to embarrassed silence. He dreaded the jokes, the wisecracks, the Wet smirks that were sure to follow. Of course he was not the keeper of his plumber brother-in-law but he could not disavow him publicly. Now he could somewhat understand how Dry Senator Fess felt when his son Lowell was caught brawling in New York speakeasies (TIME, June...
Long scrutiny of ducks has given lean, bristle-lipped Tetsuzan ("Iron Mountain") Hori one great round eye, another squinted to half the normal size. Born in Kyoto 46 years ago, he was dedicated by his parents as an artist almost as soon as he could walk. He was apprenticed to the late great Seiho Takeuchi who made him study the lives and habits of wild fowl for 16 years before he might set brush to silk panel. For several hours a day he was made to squat in the marshes, by the duck ponds, silently meditating (a practice he still...
...fall a newer Russell struts its naked iron spans...