Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cables. Permalloy, a new alloy oi iron and nickel, with magnetic properties hundreds of times greater than those of either metal, applied by a new process to cable manufacture, has increased the word-carrying capacity of the New York-Azores line of the Western Union Telegraph Co. 300% over similar cables. Officials of the Company believe it will revolutionize the cable industry. A trial cable, laid in deep water off Bermuda, withstood severe tests. In the new type of cable a thin layer of permalloy surrounds the copper core, under the gutta percha and wire coating on the outside...
...midnight an armored car and two lorries full of men halted opposite the palatial country residence of M. Trotsky outside Moscow. The men descended, marched to the big iron gates and demanded to be admitted "in the name of the Cheka." Trotsky's guards refused to open the gates; the men from the Cheka blew them up. Inside the grounds, however, they were confronted with barbed wire entanglements and a chain of concrete "pill boxes." Fire was opened, two Cheka men dropped dead; the remainder took cover; communications were cut. Meanwhile, one of Trotsky's soldiers had climbed...
...extended period of unemployment, nor any serious labor surplus is anticipated by the Employment Service. While metal industries, machinery, foundries and repair shops are now marking time, and while the railroads laid off many men during December, many lines of business?such as the iron and steel industry, automobile manufacturing and some branches of the textile trade?now possess a better tone...
...five-man defense, but with less than half a minute to go, Crane fouled Leekley, giving the latter two shots with the outcome of the game hinging upon his success. He dropped the first cleanly through the hoop, tying the score. The second, which would bring victory, struck the iron, wavered on the edge, and dropped outside the net, making a second extra period necessary...
...such as weather. "Derived cycles" are the fluctuations in prices and prosperity which follow them. The farms supply 81.2% of all raw materials used in manufactures. Six major crops-corn, wheat, oats, hay, cotton, potatoes (70.8% of all farm products)-show the 8-year cycle. So do coal and iron (13.4% of raw materials are mined), lagging slightly behind the generating cycle of crop production. Maximum and minimum rainfall definitely occurs in a periodicity of eight years, both in Europe and America. All these concurrent cycles have been observed and verified over periods ranging from 40 to 160 years...