Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of America, in convention at Warren, Ohio, was addressed by a member of 30 years' standing-the United States Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis...
Most sensational production figure were again established in steel and iron. All records for the production of pig were broken by the total out put of 3,512,275 tons for last March This is greater even than the output of September, 1918, at the climax of war production. Daily average production is at the rate of 42,500,000 tons per annum-another record. More furnaces are scheduled to go into blast, and output for the current April may even surpass March figures. Both producers and consumers are becoming conservative, however, and prices have steadied, though premiums for early...
Engaged. Princess Genevieve d'Orleans, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Vendome, to Comte de Chaponey, a great grandson of Adolphe Schneider, founder of the famous Le Creusot Iron works (the French "Krupps...
...would weed out the unfit and set them to their proper tasks. The fit he would educate to greater fitness. And throughout the process he would select and choose and apply, avoiding as he would the devil the folly of "trying to make high-speed tools out of pig iron...
...this Mr. Jim Blake, of Glens Falls, New York, writing in The Outlook, would reply that the Admiral overlooks the claims of pig iron. Pig iron doesn't relish its limitations. It would like nothing better than an infusion of tungsten. And it suffers when it is told to stay pig. Mr. Blake refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were...