Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When night falls on the mountains south of the Rio Grande, human gnomes emerge from their huts and crannies. They are knobby-headed, big-eared, scaly-skinned creatures. Some of them are splotched with red, like rusty iron. Others are mottled with green, like stained copper. They resemble living pieces of their cordilIcras lit by the sun setting over the Pacific. But they cannot look at the sun. It hurts their red and puffy eyes which can only peer into shadows for herbs, roots and grains on which to feed. When the dazzling sun disappears for the night, the gnomes...
...utility system which was Mr. Eaton's first big achievement after he had abandoned. in 1906, the idea of becoming a Baptist preacher). But more cash was needed and so he also gave to Continental Shares an additional holding in Cliffs Corp. which, because of its vast reserves of iron ore, was the hub of his steel plan?a plan which approached reality in 1930 with the formation of Republic Steel Corp., the third biggest steel company. And Continental Shares already had most of Mr. Eaton's rubber stocks, especially Goodyear...
...Iron Man (Universal). Lewis ("Lew") Ayres, recently voted "King of the Movies" in a poll conducted by the newspaper with the largest circulation in the U. S.,? is hopelessly miscast as a light-heavyweight fighter in a fumbled version of W. R. Burnett's novel. The novel is one of the few accurate pieces ever written about the prize ring but it has been adapted in a way that takes the life out of its characterizations, its swift exciting action. Ignoring the actual scenes of ring battles constructed by Author Burnett with so much realism, Director Tod Browning...
...late great Judge Elbert Henry Gary filled his position as chairman of United States Steel Corp. until Death came to him at the age of 81. To the last he discoursed heatedly on iron and steel, men and souls...
...nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also iron, magnesium) makes oysters a fine blood-builder in the human diet...