Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walworth Co. (plumbing fixtures, plumbers' tools)-$384,710. Previous year: $561,908. Explained President Howard Coonley: "The unsatisfactory conditions prevalent in other branches of the steel and iron trade during 1927 have also affected the valve and fitting industry...
...Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Co., $3,373,976. Previous year, $5,049,367. President N. F. S. Russell offered no encouragement to stockholders: "As long as French costs for labor remain at levels 50% or more below similar costs in the U. S., such importations [pipes] will remain a commercial factor. It is one of the anomalies of the situation that some of the largest public utilities, privately or municipally owned, dependent on the sale of their water, gas and power to residents of the U. S., should, for a small percentage of ultimate savings, purchase foreign pipe...
Engaged. Prince Otto Christian Archibald von Bismarck, 30, secretary of the German legation at Stockholm, aviator, grandson of the Iron Chancellor; to Miss Anni Marie Tengbom, of Stockholm, daughter of a Swedish architect...
...appeared on the face of Charles C. Davis of Columbus, Ohio, and was not noticed because it also appeared on the face of his opponent, a young man named Bert Duryee of Wichita, Kan. Without taking off his cracked and faded straw hat Davis tossed horseshoes at an iron stake driven into the ground 40 feet from where he stood. Duryee was not quite so calm; the crowd seemed to bother him and before he got going Davis had a lead of nearly 20 points which he held to the end of the game, beating Duryee...
...yards of Florida hotels. They are the ones who like the game best, but the young men are the champions. The headquarters of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association is in Akron, Ohio. A horseshoe pitcher uses two horseshoes, each weighing 2½ Ibs. He tosses them at an iron stake 40 ft. away, protruding 8 in. above a bed of potters clay. Then his opponent does likewise. The shoe that lands nearest the stake scores 1 point; a ringer 3 points; a double ringer 6 points. The first player to score 50 points wins the game. In championship matches, calipers...