Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cable from New York to Italy was officially opened last week. By the use of permalloy, a nickel-iron mixture, around its copper core, the cable is able to transmit about 1,700 letters a minute as compared to some 250 a minute by ordinary cable...
...stockmarket, one of the leading sensations was provided by the astonishing rise in price of U. S. Cast Iron Pipe. At the time, talk of a corner by W. C. Durant abounded. Yet the annual 1924 report of the Company now shows that other than manipulative causes were responsible for the long advance of "Pipe Common." Net profit last year amounted to $6,587,188, compared with $4,062,699 in 1923, $1,583,058 in 1922 and only $629,429 in 1921. Net for 1924 amounted, after 7% preferred dividends, to $43.17 a share on the 120,000 shares...
...sudden prosperity of Cast Iron Pipe has resulted mainly from the De Lavand process of making pipe, which has resulted in such large economies as to enable the Company to undersell LT. S. competitors with ease. But the competition of France and other European countries has held prices down, and constitutes a future problem...
...receive scenery. Stagehands, mechanics, saw Taucher's 200-pound shape crash to the stone floor; hurried to his aid as he incredibly rose to his feet. Supported by six strong men, suffering from a broken finger, swollen wrists, many bruises, he shouted for his sword, staggered up the iron steps and again into the circle of steam, sang with great beauty his scene with Brünnhilde Next day he read, in the columns of thitherto hostile newspapers, comments on his "superb performance," his "consummate courage...
...hard, brittle substance of the nature of a solid solution, consisting of iron with 2% or less of carbon...