Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required 300 years to build a fence around the Yard, but the job was finally finished last month when the last sections of iron pickets were placed in their brick pillars and the 3,700 feet circumference of the Yard enclosed in a permanent fence...
Last week Michael Francis Tighe, 78, resigned after 17 years as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
Three days later, with both sides standing pat, the 30-day deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers...
...74th and 75th to be added to the Barnes Foundation, which includes the largest collection of Cezannes in the world. Few U. S. citizens have had a chance to see them, for the Greco-Roman temple outside Philadelphia that houses the Barnes Foundation is surrounded by an eight-foot iron fence, guarded by savage dogs. Only specially invited guests may view his pictures, and not a few of them have been bodily ejected from the building when their appreciation of what they were shown did not seem to be sufficiently lively...
Less popular brands are constantly trying to find chinks in the iron-clad hold which the Big Three have on the mass market. During Depression the 10?-brands found a chink, pushed through to a market that last year amounted to some 13 billion cigarets sold. Last week Philip Morris thought it had discovered another opening...