Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increases were: lumber (20%), coal (40%), petroleum (18%), martensite † (80%), iron ore (112%), copper (60%), manganese (45%), textiles (35%-50%), flax fabric (35%), matches (30%), rolled iron (50%), pig iron (122%), steel (35%), hides (3%), raw sugar (40%), cotton crop (800% within a two-year period...
...iron "pulpit" lowered over the bow has proved a great success. Air. Beebe posted himself at that vantage point and, submerged to the waist at every pitch of the vessel, scooped up many specimens. Patches of Sargassum weed were encountered, even before reaching Bermuda, and specimens of weed taken with the crabs and little fishes which accompany...
...baptism. When a mature Sikh youth became baptized, he added Singh (Lion) to his name-"John Jones" became "John Jones, Lion." From baptism, the youth must wear the five "K"s: 1) kes-uncut hair of the whole body; 2) kachh-short drawers, for convenience in fighting; 3) kara-iron bangle; 4) khanda-steel dagger; 5) khanga-comb (his kit for cleanliness...
...good rotor ship Buckau, with her whirling iron towers, came to anchor in Leith harbor. She had spent approximately six days at sea, bearing a cargo from Danzig via the Kiel Canal?about three days to Kiel and three days from Kiel to Leith. Her time was not good ?tramp steamers make it in about two-thirds the time?but, during the entire voyage, she encountered storm and head winds that put her to a severe test. Moreover, during a good part of the voyage, she used her auxiliary Diesel engine...
...financial markets have come to another halt. The stock market, digesting recent price-advances, has proved irregular and less active, while sterling exchange has also lingered on its way back to par. The wheat market has experienced a severe but apparently speculative break below $2.00. Iron and steel production has mounted rapidly to what is already being called its peak for 1925 by business forecasters...