Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remember the Iron Duke? A stout old whale, with twelve-inch steel skin.* Forward of her two tall funnels, forward of her bridge-balancing tripod mast, in a heavily armored conning tower, calm little Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, stood giving orders during the biggest battle of them all, Jutland...
...survivors of his company after a shell had shot away his hand. One of the small boats had trouble making fast to the mole. In the face of machine-gun fire, the commander of her landing party calmly climbed on to the mole, made fast a grappling iron, fell riddled into...
...Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled. Gradually Fred...
Four months after the War broke out the New York stockmarket reopened. At their highs of 1915, machinery and machine equipment company stocks had appreciated 458% over their pre-War level. General Motors stock appreciated 452%. Stocks of steel and iron companies, exclusive of U. S. Steel, rose 293%; chemical concerns, 117%. At the other end of the table, gaining little, were the railroads and utilities, whose price structures were under the supervision of the Government. Tobacco and cigaret manufacturing stock appreciated only...
...veritable fury of destruction seized hold of me. Break it up! I wanted to shout. Smash away! Bust it to bits! Everything had gone red in front of my eyes. If I had had an axe or a lump of iron in my hand I should have hit out with it and smashed up myself and everyone else with the wild recklessness of a maniac...