Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomb of Queen Isabella and her consort, King Ferdinand, was robbed of the cross on the top part of the famous iron screen that surrounds their last resting place in the Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Granada. The Government issued warrants for the arrests of the robbers, who sold the cross as old iron to several dealers...
...present business conditions. According to statistics covering the Second Reserve District contained therein, since the " trough " of the recent depression to the pres-ent time production has gained 54%, employment 23%, wholesale trade 31%, retail trade 13% and bank loans 32%. Marked price advances have been seen in pig iron, copper, tin, lead, cotton, print cloth, raw sugar and even corn...
France has been suffering from strikes in her most important coal fields, and it will be some time before she recovers from the effect. Belgium is threatened by a strike which may paralyze not only her coal supplies but her iron industry...
Meanwhile American business has again entered a rising cycle, as is plainly attested by such reliable barometers as the stockmarket and the iron and cotton industries. Lately the money market has responded to this new revival of business. Call loans, the barometer of the money market, have recently risen even to 6%, while market rates for acceptances and commercial paper were perceptibly stronger...
...herself in a position where she could make demands instead of entreaties. Then, with Germany's growing defiance, the French were forced to apply greater pressure, military and economic. Cutting off the Ruhr coal supply from Germany proved insufficient. The embargo on all manufactured goods from the valley, especially iron and steel, is a more severe blow to the industrial and political life of Germany. As France continues to strengthen the barrier between Germany's productive district and the rest of, the states, the people will begin to feel the pinch and the Reich will awaken to the fact that...