Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a Berlin financial agency, the Stinnes firm, founded by the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, has disposed of eleven of its holdings: Three banks, two iron works, the Heinrich August Schulte Aktiengesellschaft (joint stock company), an oil company, a real estate company and several hotel...
...weeks ago, 20 bids were received for the purchase of the 200 ships offered for scrapping. Last week, Admiral Palmer recommended that the high bid, that of the Boston Iron and Metal Co. of Baltimore for $1,370,000, be accepted. Promptly the Board rejected the bid and reopened negotiations, hoping to get a better price-practically restoring the status quo by taking the power of negotiation again into its own hands...
...from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting is taking place, is noted for its rich iron deposits; and in the views of some the war is in reality for their possession, Abd-el-Krim supposedly being under the thumb of Germany, who has promised to import all the ores which the Riff chief can deliver...
...iron and steel industry goes, so goes business in general." Analysts of business are now pondering how much truth there is in this assumption...
...White House. He told me what he had heard regarding the insanity of the President, but said that he had refused to believe a word of it until there had been pointed out to him a bedroom in the northeast corner of the house across the window of which iron bars had been placed. He solemnly directed my attention to these bars, undeniable evidence to his mind of the truth of the insanity story...