Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From dawn until dusk 200,000 tank troops and motorized infantry poured across the border, successively occupying Moravská Ostrava, Pilsen, Koblovice. The huge iron works at Vitkovice were taken (according to the official German News Bureau) "so fast that Communist workmen could not carry out their plans to damage the plant...
...Locarno Pact, which he held in such high respect, stipulated that Germany would arbitrate or conciliate any border disputes in Western Europe. After a plebiscite, Herr Hitler revised the borders of Germany to include the Saar Basin (see map)-area: 738 square miles; population: 812,000; resources: coal, iron, steel, heavy industries...
...democracies, who have always officially believed the Aggrandizer's words rather than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...
...Harvard's authorities on Government, Professor Elliott wants the United States to force the Allies to pay their debts. He would induce them to cooperate in a United States corner or a limited embargo against the fascists of certain war materials, such as tin, scrap iron, and steel...
...exhibition visitors were several feats in reinforced concrete: the serene and summery Tokyo Golf Club, light-looking but earthquake-and-typhoon-proof homes, the remarkable Women's Christian College in Tokyo (see cut) of precast and reinforced concrete, with everything from stained glass to concrete and wrought-iron altar made on the spot by Architect Raymond's crew of craftsmen...