Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rightist "Radio General" Queipo de Llano and his men achieved the only significant military action in Spain last week, finally wrested from the Leftists 150 square miles in the Penarroya sector which has been warmly contested for the past three months, chiefly because they contain deposits of lead, copper, iron and coal. Biggest is a French-owned coal mine and this week, with the Leftists repulsed to a distance of twelve miles, miners resumed work and General Queipo de Llano radiorated louder than ever. Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle line from the French frontier...
...various mergers, Ben Fairless rose to be executive vice president of Republic Steel, left that post to become president of Myron Taylor's Amalgamated Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. in 1935. Following him in this berth will be 56-year-old J. L. Perry, now president of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., Big Steel's principal southern subsidiary. Following Ed Stettinius as chairman of Big Steel's finance committee will be 45-year-old Enders M. Voorhees, now vice-chairman...
...Lawrence feels that no such promising line of investigation should be dropped until it has been followed out further. His brother, Dr. John Lawrence of Yale Medical School, is helping him with the biological research and writing reports for medical publications. Another possibility is to trace the metabolism of iron and calcium in the body by means of radio-iron and radio-calcium...
...highest wages paid to miners in the Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...
...iron-grey hair flying, his firm jaws clenched, Conductor Artur Rodzinski mounted a podium in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center one day last week, and with a brisk downbeat of his baton started a new orchestra through its paces. He soon exclaimed: "Marvelous! The strings are fantastically fine. ... I doubt if there has ever been assembled anywhere, at any time, a new orchestra that promises so much for the future...