Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They carved wooden spikes, painted them iron-color, inserted them in place of the removed ones. The light Japanese trains crossed the rails without causing them to spread, but when the heavy munition cars came along the wooden spikes broke, spilled the cars on the trackside. This ruse has derailed over 30 trains south of Peiping in the last three months...
...down to his job as king in a manner calculated to please his distant cousins at London. Although when in Bucharest Mme Lupescu lives in a villa convenient to the royal palace, King Carol has made himself salesman for Rumania in the best British Empire tradition, dissolved the Rumanian Iron Guards (Nazis), booted out a premier who was too antiSemitic. All this has made him a little more acceptable to the British royal family. Last week Carol's first official call was on Queen Mother Mary at Maryborough House, where he presented gifts of lace and a necklace made...
...American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. One of Manhattan's least-known tycoons is American Radiator's massive President and Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, 75, a grey-haired 225-pounder, whose life story reads like Horatio Alger. At 23 he started lugging a 50-lb., cast-iron radiator sample through the Midwest, presently became the world's No. i radiator salesman. Good-natured, paternalistic, Clarence Woolley has been with American Radiator for 46 years, has headed it for 36. Last week he resigned. Into his place stepped Henry M. Reed, president of the subsidiary Standard Sanitary...
...time between 1:45 o'clock and 1:55 o'clock when he could amble off to a class. Idly he eyed the cover of the October 1 Saturday Evening Post, which depicted a night football game; and idly he began to count the yard-lines on the grid-iron there displayed. There were only ninety-five yards. In irritation, he counted them again, this time more carefully. There were still only ninety-five yards. With terrible intensity, he made a final count. Ninety-five yards...
...Moriz Rosenthal boasts that he can tear a pack of cards in half, break an iron horseshoe with his bare hands, snap a taut piano string with one blow of his index finger, lift a 200-lb. weight over his head. Long a student of jujitsu, he took up boxing in his 60s, has trained for several months under the guidance of Welsh Heavyweight Tommy Farr...