Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
...know a good deal more about iron...
Since 1923, not a single pound of Canadian iron ore has been produced. The 2,000,000 tons of ore a year required by Canada's iron & steel industry are imported from Newfoundland and the U. S. It was therefore news last week when the Northern Miner (Toronto) reported that Canadian iron would soon be coming up from a big ore body beneath M-shaped Steep Rock Lake, located about 100 miles north of Minnesota's great Mesaba Range...
...prospector named Jules Cross became convinced there was iron under the lake. After he met up with Joseph Errington, a prosperous oldtime mining man, professional geologists definitely established existence of the ore body. The two promoters feel sure of at least 100,000,000 tons in the property they have now bought up, and chartered as Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd. (Joseph Errington, president), with authority from the Ontario Government to issue 5,000,000 shares...
...McLennan Handicap from Warren Wright's promising Bull Lea in a spectacular stretch finish, 21,000 racing addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer who bet his salary on Stagehand, to Seminole Indians who were lured from their nearby reservation to do a war dance...