Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coal and iron mines are a second national resource which should attract American capital. Large deposits of the metals are known to exist, but, comparatively, they are un exploited. The Filipinos have been primarily an agricultural people and have been uninterested in the existence of these mineral deposits. Not until the acquisition of the islands by the United States in 1898, has our people realized the extent of these natural resources...
...life of the professional baseball player is sketched, at least, in Heywood Broun's The Sun Field; the professional pugilist appears in Jim Tully's Emmett Lawlor; steel and iron workers, both masters and men, pass through the pages of Caret Garrett's The Cinder Buggy. But in spite of these and the vast number of semi-humorous or mechanically conventional "sport stories" or "labor stories" in our popular magazines?a good deal of modern American fiction seems to deal with a class of characters who form a very small minority of the population...
...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment?wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...
...University fencing team which won the "Iron Man" Intercollegiate Fencing Trophy offered by Colonel R. M. Thompson last spring in New York has returned to the college this season intact. It is composed of three Seniors, E. L. Lane '24, fencing captain this year, E. H. Lane '24 and Roland Fleer...
...reason to fear there will be a serious financial or commercial disturbance or depression during the next few months." Despite the pres-ent handicaps of high and burdensome taxes, high costs of production and high costs of living, the Judge looks forward cheerfully to conditions in the iron and steel industry. He recognizes that the returns on capital invested in the business are inadequate, and that the industry is not operating at full capacity. Yet he considers the outlook good, and anticipates heavy purchasing by railroads, constructors, oil producers, canners and automobile makers...