Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canyon, Tex., Dr. C. A. Pierle analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained-'enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a tenpenny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken-coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog.' All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drugstore for 98c."- TIME...
...protectionists' economics ran somewhat as follows: "Now, U. S., do you know that you only make up a little over 6% of the world's population, and yet you are so industrious that you consume between 37% and 75% of the world's production of coal, iron, copper, rubber, petroleum and many another commodity? The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Your industries which manufacture competitive products are protected by the tariff. Hence your labor is kept busy, your standard of living is high and you can buy from other countries...
...engineering, through its major body, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, annually singles out one of its members for highest honors and presents him with a medal established in 1902 in memory of John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application...
Andrew Carnegie, grasping for iron and steel monopoly made Frick his chief partner-in Carnegie Bros. That was in 1889. But theirs was no close friendship. Both were too individualistic. Eventually they quarreled, called each other names, separated, but this was after Frick, with the aid of some Carnegie men-Charles M. Schwab, William Ellis Corey and James Gayley-had smashed the bloody, massacring Homestead Strike of 1892. In the riots Anarchist Alexander Berkman shot Frick, stabbed him thrice...
Prison Fare. Before the same association, Dr. George Walker of Baltimore said: "Milk, not bread, is the staff of life. Five quarts of milk a day alone will keep one alive, for milk contains every food requisite, except iron...