Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public ownership of the Nation's water power and creation of a public superpower system. Strict Strict public control and permanent conservation of all national resources, including coal, iron and other ores, oil and timber lauds,in the interest of the people. Promotion of public works in times of business depression...
Present production total is now 45% of the pre-War figure?an increase from 15% in 1920; production of pig iron has increased from 7,000,000 pounds in 1921 to 35,000,000 in 1923-4; oil production leaves a large surplus for export; coal production is entirely satisfactory; stabilization of the ruble has tremendously improved the financial situation and Russia now has a foreign trade balance of 100,000,000 rubles ($11,500,000); unemployment is least satisfactory and figures quoted show substantial increases in each case; agricultural lands now cultivated are between...
Public utilities and railroads are in high feather; their stocks are rising steadily in Wall Street; they are planning elaborate and significant mergers. But industrial concerns are very much in the trough of depression, as conditions in the basic and typical steel and iron industry go to show...
Conservation. Recovery of oil reserves, prosecution of those public and private who took part in leasing them; revision of the water power act; retention of title in water power; public control and conservation of coal, iron, oil, timber; protection of migratory birds; reforestation...
...last issue of the Business Bulletin of the Cleveland Trust Co., of which he is Vice President, he reiterates his belief as to the basic character of the steel and iron industry and its tendency to increase or decrease in the general business conditions. Yet Col. Ayres does not look for any sudden recovery in the industry. As he points out, there are four great buyers of steel who absorb about two-thirds of its entire output: 1) the railroads, which buy about 25%; 2) the building industry, which takes about 15%; 3) the pipe and tank industry, using another...