Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candy, coal and chemicals, soap and scrap iron, fertilizer, leather, glass, paper, old rubber and garden truck were some of the things Interstate Commerce Commissioners in Washington pondered last week when opponents of the railroads' petition for a 15% freight rate increase began to present their rapid-fire testimony (TIME, July 27, Aug. 3). Shippers and manufacturers popped up and down in the witness stand to oppose Ex Parte 103 faster than the Press could keep track of them. The gist of their argument: if rail rates went up they, the rate payers, would divert more & more of their...
...companies were human beings, Simmons Co. might well jump into a comfortable Simmons Bed, bounce on a Beautyrest mattress, hide its venerable head at the memory of what it did in 1929 when there was madness in the air. During that year the company left its field of iron beds and accessories, branched into general furniture lines. Although sales increased monthly over the preceding year, most of the gains were because of new purchases. But the public overlooked this fact and the pool in Simmons headed by Chicago Bull Arthur W. Cutten put it to $188, the high whence...
...iron production in July was 1,463,220 tons. This not only broke the previous Depression low of 1,665,692 tons in December but was the worst month since November 1921 when production was 1,415,000 tons. Pig iron production for the first seven months was 40% below last year. The end of July found 82 stacks in blast, or 26.1% of the total, against 91 at the end of June, 144 at the end of July...
Next night a larger party came, augmented their din with wash boilers, drums, iron hoops, hammers, fiddles. Father Peterson, mad clear through, swore he would not pay one cent of tribute. Chairman Heino Nuutinen of the charivari committee retorted that they would stay there till he did, if it took a year. Twelve nights the charivari continued while Father Peterson grew grimmer and grimmer, Juoni & bride grew paler and weaker. The band grew larger, jumped to 40, doubled overnight. To the horns, tin pans, boilers, drums,, hoops, hammers, fiddles, were added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson...
...Association, but a gigantic al fresco show, home-produced in the month-old Municipal Stadium. Beneficiary of the performance was the Cleveland Press's milk fund. Purpose was to entertain those of the citizenry who like music and those who like spectacles. A further purpose was to illuminate iron-mongering Cleveland's place on the nation's cultural...