Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Age" Readers...
...give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron Age," says TIME...
Proud are we of "august." Sorry are we that you employed the restrictive words "steel industry's." "Metal products industries' " would have been far more accurate, for but 12.91% of our subscribers are iron and steel producers...
Harvey G. Woodward made a fortune in Birmingham and Manhattan real estate and in his family's Woodward Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment...
...great production record of 5,620,000 cars & trucks. In 1930 production was about 3,500,000. But motormakers still had cause to boast. With pride they could point to the fact that their gargantuan industry devours 82% of the rubber, 55% of the plate glass, 15% of the iron & steel, 57% of the upholstery leather, 30% of the aluminum, 14% of the copper, 15% of the hardwood, 24% of the lead, 80% of the gasoline consumed in the U. S.; that it fills 3,080,000 freight cars a year; that it employs almost 5,000,000 workers...