Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin, at the hub of the pinwheel, pertinent facts were seen to be: 1) Rhenish and Westphalian producers of semi-finished iron and steel products cut prices 3% last week; 2) under an arbitral ruling by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald (Time, June 9) the Westphalian producers won last week the right to reduce 200,000 workmen's wages 7½% next month; 3) in a trade circular the Westphalian metal syndicate urged other German industrialists to cut prices and wages, but for the time being this scheme remained a proposal, possibly a trend...
...welcomed a band of German, Swiss, Italian pilgrims. Scarcely had he begun to speak, however, when the glass front of a wall clock directly above jarred loose. Miraculous was the Pope's escape with only a small cut on one hand. Had not the clock's iron hands deflected the falling glass, injuries to His Holiness might have been grievous...
...McLaglen's latest contribution to the all-talkie, all-sexy form of dramatic art is "On the Level", now showing at the B. F. Keith's Memorial Theatre. The virility of Herr McLaglen is very adequately balanced by the Misses Fifi Dorsay and Lilyan Tashman. Between these three, the iron workers Union, and Palisades Park, the director has managed to turn out a fairly amusing picture...
Statisticians comparing May 1930 and May 1929 business found many decreases, few increases. According to the most recent Crandall Pierce Business Index, last month showed freight car loadings down 9%, commodity prices down 6%, automobile production down 31%, pig iron production down 13%. Among the comparatively few increases were commercial failures, up 9%. Yet last week one young industry prospered and expanded, cheered by its demands an old industry. For when Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. announced that it would build a 1,250-mi. natural gas pipe line from the Texas Panhandle to Indianapolis, it evidenced not only increasing...