Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect a brass advertisement to sell steel and iron pipe? That would be brass on my part...
...volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked metallic conductor. In pockets of the negative plate finely divided iron is mixed with the same metallic conductor. (Originally, in both plates, the conductor was graphite...
When the American Iron & Steel Institute met in Manhattan last week there was no Judge Gary to conclude his ritual lecture by saying: "Gentlemen, the meeting is now in your hands. Whom do you want to hear from?" The answer was always the roar: "Charlie!" The judge and all others present knew that the "Charlie" was for Charles Michael Schwab, Chairman of the Board of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. But Judge Gary was dead two months (TIME, Aug. 22). He could not prime the iron & steel men's cheers for "Charlie." There was no need. In Judge Gary...
...Institute is a trailer to the late John Pierpont Morgan's decision that competing iron and steel manufacturers cease cut-throat competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge...
...judge devised another vehicle of cooperation. If all iron and steel men would not truckle to Mr. Morgan's idea of a single steel corporation for the U. S., they might truck with him. In 1909 the judge organized the American Iron & Steel Institute where all rivals could meet on unrestricted terms to discuss common problems and follow similar programs, notably as to the costs and sale of steel. The judge was until his death its first and only president...