Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When washed and sifted, the opinions claim that New York financial interests control labor as well as the managers of industry, that union workers must pay for their jobs, that independent competition is essential to business improvements and higher wages, and that the Wagner Act is an iron collar upon the neck of labor...
...have read with great interest your article on the opening of Great Lakes navigation under Business & Finance in TIME, April 26, but take exception to your description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling...
...depressions to their simplest terms, draw parallels for the current guidance of businessmen. Putting the months of the stockmarket crashes of 1873, 1893 and 1929 on one baseline, he superimposed charts of durable goods activity for the following ten-year periods. In each of the earlier depressions pig iron production & prices began to recover exactly five years and six months after the crisis. Banker Dawes placed his bet accordingly. Stockmarket averages compared in the same way showed the course of recovery interrupted in 1883 and 1903, in the tenth year after the market crash. Hence Banker Dawes...
...Kalamazoo. Mich., Anne Wilson boarded an express train for Chicago, remembered almost an hour later that she had forgotten to turn off an electric curling iron at home. Hastily scribbling a note, she tossed it out a window as the train stopped at Niles. The station agent picked it up. telegraphed the Kalamazoo fire department which arrived just in time to put out the fire...
...fact that the structure is not of the latest fireproof construction, yet facilities for emptying the building are at best scanty. The wire ladder on the second floor is the single attempt at a means of escape, and this would be difficult to unroll or manipulate, especially as iron bars are secured across the adjacent window...