Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America using three other suggested methods of shielding base metals against corrosives with aluminum. One of these is mightily to press thin sheets of aluminum against sheets of steel. Workability here is limited. Germans are using this process in a semi-commercial way. Another is to heat iron and steel in contact with aluminum. This calorizing process (exploited by Calorizing Co. of America at Pittsburgh, a General Electric offshoot) helps prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric arc whence...
Thirty-six years ago, when Calvin Coolidge was a countrified freshman at Amherst, a train of cars creaked down from the Mesaba Range, where Hibbing was to be built, bearing the first shipment of blood-colored rocks and dust.* Today the Mesaba district produces 63 million tons of iron ore per annum, four-fifths the total consumption of the U. S. In 1892, the iron ranges of Wisconsin and the Michigan peninsula-Gogebic, Florence, Menominee-had been developed for over a decade. They were the first answer to Railroader James J. Hill's gloomy prediction that the world...
...train with President Coolidge rode Pentecost Mitchell of Duluth, whose father organized the first mining company on the Mesaba. Mr. Mitchell, president of U. S. Steel Corp.'s potent subsidiary, Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners...
...iron ore is called "hematite." Magnetite, another iron ore, is black; limonite, another, yellowish-brown...
...agreement was a list of exceptions. It specified a few remaining articles of commerce which it was agreed might still be subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...