Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London View - Professor Thomas' Academy - Pig Iron - Dartmouth and Yale The London Times sees in the Carnegie report a sign of the awakening of the United States to its educational shortcomings, as well as an admission of the existence of those shortcomings. "The state of American education has never been fully understood in this country. There is, on the one hand, a vague belief in its efficiency which has been encouraged by the reports of English educationalists who have been welcomed in the United States and shown many admirable schools which were not perhaps fair samples of the whole...
...expansion in production and trade, and the upward trend in raw material prices, were both strongly maintained. Perhaps the most interesting and significant examples of economic tendencies now visible throughout almost all lines of business, have been furnished by recent developments in iron, steel, oil, cotton...
...first named industry is now experiencing a veritable boom, attended with record production and mounting prices. Current production of pig iron has surpassed even the unusually active month of March, 1920, which followed the futile steel strike of 1919, and is now only some 3 or 4% below the huge war-time output attained in September, 1918, just before the Armistice. Despite this sensational rate of production recently attained, however, the demand is so urgent and extensive that new price advances have occurred in pig, and in both semi-finished steel and several steel products. Last month the Steel Corporation...
...demand for iron and steel comes from a variety of sources- indicative of the wide extent of the business recovery this winter. Railroads are purchasing much needed equipment, as was seen when the $31,500,000 issue of Pennsylvania Railroad 5% Equipment Trust Certificates was bought out last week. Another heavy buyer has been the automobile industry, which is preparing for another banner year. The increasing production attained by oil companies has led to large purchases. Likewise, the building boom is absorbing quantities of structural steel. In addition, curtailment of operation in the Ruhr district has caused appreciable foreign purchases...
...hindering it in its struggle for existence. Her actions are undermining the friendship which has grown up with England, and are lowering her position in the regard of most Americans. The loss of the friendship of these countries would far outweigh any gain from supplies of coal or iron. I oppose the French action", the speaker concluded, "not because of any pity for the Germans, but because it is a crime committed against the French people themselves...