Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called tyranny, the students stormed the meeting of the School Board. It was not so much the actual payment that was irksome, it was the principle of the thing. The blood of the northern Indian runs hot and strong, for he is willing to throw himself upon the iron hand of politics. But this efforts will be as impotent as any attempt that Harvard could make to interfere in the Cambridge elections...
...Labor Party urges definite planning of industry and trade so as to produce the highest standard of life for the nation. As a first step it proposes to reorganize the most important basic industries?power, transport, iron and steel? as public services owned and controlled in the national interest...
September production of pig iron and steel ingots were both at the lowest monthly level since 1921. Steel production last week however was around 29% of capacity, a slight gain over September's 28.2% average. Unfilled orders of United States Steel Corp. at the end of the month showed a decrease of 24,624 tons and stood at 3,144,833 tons. The industry remains hopeful of: 1) increased building construction if credit facilities become easier; 2) real buying from the railroads after the I. C. C.'s rate decision; 3) bigger demand from, the automobile industry...
Army and Navy planes have been experimenting with the "iron pilot" for several years, but this was the first commercial installation. A sharp-eyed reporter for the Baltimore Sun found the newly equipped Condor at the Berliner-Joyce aircraft plant, shrewdly wrote that Eastern Air Transport proposed to use it in regular service. The transport company was deeply embarrassed because it had not yet applied to the Department of Commerce for permission to use the robot. To check further gossip and placate the Department, it conducted last week's public flight, stated with great emphasis that it was "preliminary...
...Iron Man of former days would be shocked to look into the practice field some afternoon in early October and see the apparently casual way that practice is going on. He would be still more shocked to perceive the evident enjoyment that the players are getting out of the afternoon session; but whatever his personal feelings, he would be unable to deny the efficacy of the system...