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Word: ironical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shift system, pay would be $3.20 for eight hours. It is improbable that the steel mills could secure workers at that wage. Hence, it was considered necessary to increase hourly wages at the same time that the working day was cut. After a meeting of the directors of the Iron and Steel Institute, Judge Elbert H. Gary, its President (also Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation), announced that the pay of workmen would be increased (no definite date) 25%-to 50?. an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Definite Steps | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Signor Benito Mussolini, full of Napoleonic gestures, was born at Varano di Costa on July 29, 1882. He is the son of an iron worker and started life as a laborer. His first important political appearance was at Milan when he was beaten in a parliamentary election by a rich opponent. So angry was he that history records that " he broke the ballot boxes in a fit of petulance." This untoward act caused the police to be inquisitive and Mussolini left for Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Benito's Birthday | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...Europe and America are united by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men." The first cable consisted of a core of seven twisted copper wires, covered with gutta percha, hempen yarn saturated with pitch, wax, etc., and a spiral sheathing of iron wires, The whole about 6/10 of an inch in diameter and weighing one ton to the mile. The same general principles are followed today, but it is necessary to make the portions near the shore stronger and heavier. Cables cost from $350 to $1,500 a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Biggest Cable | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...August 15 a huge agricultural exhibit will open in Moscow. Over 10,000 workmen are employed in preparing the grounds and $3,000,000 is being spent. All constructions will be of wood, as there is no iron available save for exhibition purposes. Krupps, not generally considered a peaceable firm, will be represented by agricultural machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Notes | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...Republicans to keep some sort of a working majority in the Senate, was obliged by the rigors of the campaign to attack the Fordney-McCumber tariff and to keep silence about the Administration. Nevertheless, he was defeated by the discontent of the Minnesota farmers and workingmen of the Iron Range district, and by the vigorous campaigning of a capable politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnus the Great | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

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