Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bronx (borough of New York City), rival factions of ice-dealers fought a pitched battle in the streets. Ice-picks, ice-tongs, blocks of ice and iron bars were wielded. Six icemen were injured, eight arrested...
...less than eight heavy old-fashioned padlocks, four of them on one door with heavy sheet iron plates on either side formerly protected the passage up the stairs to the bell. The time-honored custom of stealing the tongue of the bell or otherwise disabling it necessitated these heavy fortifications to guard it from assault. All of these locks remain as witnesses of the old times, but they are no longer used. As Mr. Conant said: "Those days are pretty nearly faded out; there's only one door used now with a modern Yale lock...
...down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual method of access was to stand on the roof of Hollis, rope the Harvard chimney and come over on that. But one night, coming up the stairs, the "thieves" avoided the sheet-iron door by going around it. As old Jones used to say. "The boys tore out the plaster and went through the wall...
Tradition is a wonderful thing--but many more inspiring traditions than a seven o'clock eye-opener have passed into oblivion. It is no longer considered quite the thing to demolish Mr. Conant's impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while...
...salvage operations in his factories are said to be unusually efficient and complete, and productive of great economies. According to a recent report, the salvage squad of 417 men dispose each day of 392 tons of steel trimmings, 190 tons of baled steel, and 153 tons of cast iron borings. In addition, it saves about 91/2 tons of paper, several tons of miscellaneous metals and other material, and about 2,000 gallons of oil. Much of this material, which would otherwise be wasted, is used in various ways, often by repairing it. Among other savings each year is metallic silver...