Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
...Shreveport, La., stunt-loving Radio Station KWKH, owned by Henderson Iron Works, rushed a plane into the air for an endurance flight to anticipate the time when endurance attempts would become too banal for public attention. The plane stayed up 128 hours. Averred E. B. Redline, flight director: malicious persons put mud in the gasoline supply...
...widely recognized as a Coming Man of Wall Street. He graduated from Harvard (1901), took a law degree (1904), entered business in 1911 with the Central Foundry Co. From 1915 to 1917 he was a Morgan Man (export division), then spent a year as president of Schloss Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. on the Executive Committee of which he still serves. He has written on many an industrial topic, has been recently engaged with William T. Foster on a study of the Reserve Board v. Wall Street situation. Whenever Mr. Catchings can catch some leisure from his business cares, he travels...
...Laughlin Steel Corp. (Famed Pittsburgh family steel company, closel)' held by the Jones and Laughlin families. Founded in 1852. G. M. Laughlin Jr. is Board Chairman and W. L. Jones Jr. and B. F. Jones III are Executive Committee members. Capacity of 2,400,000 gross tons pig iron and 3,000,000 gross tons ingots. Earned $16 a share for the half.) Net income, first half...
...estimated at between $92,000,000 and $94,000,000, compared to first half 1928 earnings of $87,866,000 (TIME, July 22). Bethlehem Steel, second biggest, had up to last week made no report. Of other potent steel companies, the following have announced 1929 earnings to date: Republic Iron & Steel Co. This Ohio company, with both William G. Mather, big-Cleveland-iron-man and Cyrus S. Eaton, big-Cleveland-steel-man, on its di rectorate, has made extraordinary progress during the past year. After a somewhat in-and-out period from 1923 through 1927, the company acquired Trumbull Steel...