Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eighth most frequent element in the world, being preceded quantitatively by oxygen 49.78%, silicon 26.08%, aluminium 7.34%, iron 4.11%, calcium 3.19%, magnesium 2.24%, sodium 2.33%, then potassium 2.28%. All other elements are less than...
...president of the District Miners' Union; 38, Secretary and Treasurer of the National Union of Miners (1900). Fortunate in a "common school education," honesty, efficiency, he entered Congress; but now is embarked on the business of agriculture. His pre-congressional career is reminiscent of that of Secretary ("Iron-puddler") Davis, of the Department of Labor...
...letters a minute, is to result from an improvement achieved in the cable itself after long experimenting to gain speed by improving sending and receiving instruments. Around the copper conductor of the 3,800-mile strand is wound a continuous strip of "permalloy" ribbon, an alloy of iron and nickel which conducts current very freely, permitting signals to be sent close together...
Premier Baldwin (rising to reply to Laborite insinuations that he owned 200,000 shares in the great iron manufactory, Baldwin's Ltd., and was therefore biased toward the coal owners and anxious to break the strike at the miners' expense) : "I hold the shares in question. That is absolutely true, and they represent the bulk of what I have. ... I might have been a rich man today had I sold' those shares during the War and transferred the proceeds into foreign securities...
...Steel is not the most profitable of U. S. steel fabricators. Its 90 millions of 1925 earnings were only 4.77% on capitalization. Smaller concerns earned greater percentages-Central Steel (18%), Youngstown Sheet & Tube (6.94%), Interstate Iron (8.31%), Ludlum Steel...