Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently appear - a runner, his face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson who won the Manhattan A. A. U. marathon last fortnight? The crowd discussed its favorites and perspired, for the temperature was 77°. The blazing spring sun would do the runners no good...
Matches. Far flung are the operations of Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for the great "Swedish Match Trust," for 21 industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's richest bachelor." To shareholders last week he reported that Kreuger & Toll during 1930 earned $24,163,000 from dividends and interest received, against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits...
...still waiting for the factors of recovery-in the first place moral factors-to enter into play simultaneously and collectively." Under the new policy announced by II Duce last week, cut wages will not be upped, but there will be no more cuts. State Nep. In Moscow iron-willed but supple-witted Dictator Josef Stalin went back last week to the maxim of LENIN: Advance three steps, retreat two, net gain...
March is the best month for Steel Production. The only years in which April did not start with a drop in production were 1928 and 1922. 1931 proved no exception, as last week steel production fell from 57% of capacity to 55%, the first decline of the year. Said Iron Age: "This set-back is not regarded as signifying anything more than exaggerated caution." Steel prices remain firm, highish, but it is well known that naming a price and doing business at it are not the same thing in the steel industry...
...Hollywood, Calif., for conferences over the cinematization of his book, The Iron Puddler, Senator (onetime Secretary of Labor) James John Davis was offered the leading part in the play. He declined. His excuse: he never had made love to anyone but his wife...