Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carol II, later was reported branching out into Bucharest real estate, finally to have large holdings in Rumania's key industries, especially those to which the Government can throw contracts. Mme Lupescu for years was in mortal terror of assassination by Rumania's anti-Semitic Iron Guard, more recently has been famed as its "largest contributor." Last week this able junk-dealer's daughter seemed on the point of realizing a majestic ambition: a second Nahlin cruise, this time with the world's tabloids headlining Mme Lupescu...
...Boston was once as low as $1, to Providence 50?. When Financiers Jay Gould and Jim Fisk got their powerful hands on the line, competition turned from rates to magnificence. Staircases became grander, chandeliers larger and more glittering, furnishings and decorations more sumptuous. In 1883 appeared their first iron-hull vessel, the Pilgrim, which carried 675 passengers. It was taken for granted that anyone would sleep better in a Fall River berth than in his own bed. Food was good and plentiful...
...many Pittsburghers as one more incident in a long, unacknowledged rivalry between the Mellons and Pittsburgh's second most powerful family. Founded by the late, hard-driving John Hartwell Hillman Sr., who cast cannon balls during the Civil War and moved to Pittsburgh from Tennessee, the Hillman coke-iron-coal-banking-industrial empire now extends over six States. John Hartwell Hillman Jr., who was born in tiny Trigg Furnace, Ky., 57 years ago, is a director in a score of banks, steel companies and other corporations including Pittsburgh's First National Bank and the Chemical Bank & Trust...
Last week Eastchester's Zoning Board of Appeals ordered Dr. Shapera to get Iron Mike off his lawn and out of sight. The veterinarian flatly refused. Town Counsel William Olsen threatened to seek an injunction, whereupon Dr. Shapers hired lawyers to contest the action. Iron Mike, his tongue hanging out, his coat of paint scrubbed carefully by Dr. Shapera's housekeeper, continued to gaze benignly at genteel Eastchester...
Near Boyertown, Pennsylvania's first iron forge, in 1733 an Englishman named William Bird earned two shillings sixpence daily cutting wood. By 1740 he had accumulated enough capital to set up two charcoal-fired forges of his own where Hay Creek entered the Schuylkill half-dozen miles south of Reading. From these two forges sprang the present town of Birdsboro and the Birdsboro Steel Foundry & Machine Co. William Bird's eldest son Mark added other forges, a rolling mill, slitting mill and what is believed to be the first U. S. nail factory. By the Revolution...