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Word: ironed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Released meanwhile in Berlin was a photograph of Pilot Carl Francke, "the German aviator who achieved the remarkable act of destroying an English airplane carrier in the North Sea, and who was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Goring with the Iron Cross, first and second class, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Cameras & Artists | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Nazi Propagandist Paul Joseph Goebbels hung on the chests of ten German newspapermen ten Iron Crosses for the fine work they had done for the Fatherland in their war dispatches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Garbo, who plays her first full-length comedy with iron, Bolshevik disregard for glamor, in a khaki uniform and middie blouse, succeeds in the difficult task of making her tight-lipped fanaticism funny without making it ridiculous. Even her change of heart is winning and plausible. But why she should change under the impact of Melvyn Douglas is one of those things even the genius of Karl Marx could not explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Fire swallowing is an art that takes lots of practice but it is not particularly dangerous. I do it all with chemicals and it in just like breathing in warm air. Many believe that you have to have a cast iron mouth and throat for this kind of thing, but surprisingly enough I cannot even put a lighted match in my mouth without its burning the roof of my mouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE EATER TELLS SEVERAL SECRETS ABOUT HIS TRADE | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Last month The Iron Age reported from Detroit that Stinson Aircraft, having just taken $1,853,451 of Army business, was planning to expand its Wayne (Mich.) plant. Continental Motors Corp., at work (with RFC and new private money) on plane engines, was erecting two buildings at Muskegon (Mich.). A few weeks ago, Pratt & Whitney gave a green light to famed Detroit Architect Albert Kahn, who had blueprints ready on a Wednesday, received bids Thursday on 1,800 tons of structural steel for a plant in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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