Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...construction industry, with a reappearance of a demand for higher wages. But even under slightly higher wage and material costs it is apparent that the " building boom " is going to continue well into 1924 and probably even longer. This will in turn serve as a back log for the iron and steel, lumber, cement and brick industries, and furnish much traffic for the railways...
...recent optimism so frequently expressed concerning the steel industry is relatively, if not absolutely, borne out by current figures of production and prices. Declines in production during October amounted to only 1% in ingot output, and to only 2½% in pig-iron production. Actual tonnage during October was slightly greater than during the preceding September, but this was due to the greater number of working days in the former month. Prices in the eastern section have remained steady at previously established low levels, while slight declines have occurred in the western and southern fields...
Regular dividends were also declared by the above companies, and likewise by American Sugar on its preferred, Atlas Powder on its common, and U. S. Cast Iron Pipe on common and preferred...
...money received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the taking of these 45 acres for the Metropolitan reservation which made possible the erection of the iron fence which now the surrounds the entire Soldiers Field tract...
...About 500 gold, platinum, silver, manganese, iron, tin, zinc, salt, coal and other mines and deposits...