Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manchester, last week, and spoke words of chastening counsel. Addressing a potent luncheon group of Lancashire cotton tycoons he pointedly intimated that the capital structures of many of their firms are topheavy and must be scaled down. As he often does, Mr. Baldwin took his text from the iron & steel industry which is the basis of his family fortune, and spoke with a certain rugged candor thus: "I am going with my own trade, the steel trade, through deep waters. Most of what I had was in that industry, and for every shilling I had when I took office...
...husbands of the two flying Ladies also figured in the news. Said Sir Abe Bailey, 63, owner of diamond mines, at a luncheon in honor of his wife in Cape Town: "I knew she was a brave woman when she married me." Sir James Heath, 76, coal & iron tycoon, amazed mechanics by giving his wife a vigorous & noisy kiss when she landed at Croydon Airdrome in London. Said he: "A braver woman never lived...
...Exchange last week surpassed all previous spectacles. From the floor a ululant howling roared; brokers milled around; pages and messengers doubled around huddles of bidding brokers; brokers chanted a litany of bids & asks at each other, and sweated like the marching monks in Tannhäuser. Visitors in the iron-railed balcony peeked at the madness below for a few minutes, and were politely hurried out by grey-dressed attendants. When Friday was done the brokers were glad that the Exchange governors had decreed Saturday a day of rest. In five days of trading they had handled...
...James Burkitt, stalwart, 40-year-old, shock-headed native of Mississippi (white), whose activities have ranged from puddling iron to selling real estate and reading books on municipal government. Last winter, after living in Jersey City for ten years, Mr. Burkitt arose as a giant of the people. He contributed a series of letters to the Jersey Journal on the subjects of city bonds and citizens' taxes. He signed himself "The Jeffersonian Democrat" and soon became a noted public character. When he called for a mass meeting, 1,500 citizens turned out. Then he began attending sessions...
...best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, and the worst animal...