Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at New York's Balzac Galleries, Frau Jack von Reppert-Bismarck was heralded as a great-granddaughter-in-law of the Iron Chancellor's cousin, and also as Germany's Marie Laurencin...
...Andrew William Mellon was already a tycoon to be reckoned with. He was 45, lean and quiet. The Union Trust which he had founded eleven years prior had grown and become a mighty instrument in his skilled hands. He had an iron in many industrial fires already glowing, he had irons in other fires just kindling. Nine years had passed since he had bought into Aluminum Co. of America and the investment began to look promising. He held a lot of bonds in an oil company sponsored by that picturesque Pittsburgher, J. M. Guffey. Six years later those bonds were...
...Mellon was in the offices of Pottstown Iron Co., of which he was a director. Two young engineers working for the Shiffier Bridge Co. came to see him with the idea of getting his backing and setting up in business for them selves. Taller of the two was lanky Howard H. McClintic. Much shorter was Charles D. Marshall. Mr. Mellon heard their case and was silent. Iron and Steel had not yet definitely settled into its corporate departments, the financier reflected. Finally he consented. A company was formed and the new team of McClintic-Marshall entered the business of taking...
...Iron production during January was 1,714,266 tons, a gain of 3% over December?the first gain since April. Production during January 1930, however, was 2,827,464 tons, and last month's figure is the smallest for any January since 1922. Pig iron production is usually at its seasonal low during February, its high during March...
...Golf Association's new ball-.07 oz. lighter, .06 in. bigger- has been official. Golfers who have continued to use the 1.62-oz. 1.62-in. "old" ball have been using a tool of the game as illegitimate now as the sand-wedge or the deep-scored rib-faced iron. But many a player has so continued, waiting for tournament golfers, who had to use the new ball, to give some indication of whether it really took distance off shots, was harder to control. Last week the Professional Golfers Association published a tabulation of what 16 famed pros have done...