Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course such Socialist heckling perturbed not at all the "Iron Premier," who, backed by the military and naval experts of France and supported by a public which still fears German attack, can jam through billions for defense more easily than for any other purpose...
...list of seven speakers who should interpret, jointly and severally, "The Current Situation." Impressive were names, titles, themes, as follows: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President, American Construction Council (Building and Construction); Harold Higgins Franklin Swift, Swift & Co. (Meat-packing); Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman Finance Committee, U. S. Steel Corp. (Iron and Steel); Charles Franklin Kettering, President, General Motors Research Corp. (Automobiles); Walter Sherman Gifford, President A. T. & T. (Communication); Frank Brett Noyes, President, The Associated Press (Printing and Publishing); Charles Edwin Mitchell, President, National City Bank (Finance...
...writes). "We had to move to a house stronger than ours - but the wind shook the walls like a young tree. During one day and night we remained under that house -ours flew away -next day I had no place to go. So I took two pieces of corrugated iron, leaned them against a tree and that is my home and the children's. We have no clothes presentable. "For 24 hours I couldn't even make tea for my babies. We have no tea or sugar either. But when the rain cleared and I decided...
...steel industry; elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in the public a kind of stupefied saturation, with symptoms of debility, inanition and imbecility; elsewhere newspapers are grouped in the hands of a few individuals who consider journalism an industry, like iron or leather...
Only the temporary iron tower for pouring cement remained standing, swaying and lashing wildly, while a single workman clung to the topmost pinnacle, scared but safe. A passing trolley car was derailed by falling chunks, and passengers tumbled out higgelty piggelty?some gravely cut and wounded. Meanwhile, shrieks & groans ascended from the fallen building's debris...