Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual at this time in January, the output of iron & steel foundries perked up and the founders became as cheerful as recently they had been glum. U. S. iron & steel works have a practical capacity of 50,000,000 tons a year. Because the U. S. Steel Corp. was working at 60% of capacity and the several smaller companies at an average of 57½% of capacity during the Christmas holidays, the whole of 1927 seemed to have been a poor year for the industry. Yet, reported the American Iron & Steel Institute last week, the companies produced...
...heavy, bleached Cuban architecture ?single-story houses of limestone blocks; ponderous doors of studded mahogany; immense windows with iron grilles; big, fancy locks, bolts and knockers. There are no front yards...
...which Edsel Ford said: "the New York show is built around this one idea-a visual demonstration of the operation of the Ford industries, from the raw materials to the finished product. We have stated frequently that we do not charge a profit on the materials from our iron mines, coal mines, gas plants, blast furnaces, rolling mills and other operations which enter into the construction of our automobiles, trucks, airplanes and other manufactured products...
...IRON AND SMOKE-Sheila Kaye-Smith -Dutton ($2.50). The emotion which Author Kaye-Smith understands most fully, hence describes better than any other, is the emotion which men feel for their land; the humble, genuine, particular patriotism of farmers, squires, men of the soil. In most of her previous books, she has studied this feeling as it colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns...
...razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips and to admit that he has been dealing from the bottom of a cold pack of lies. Against an almost bibulously romantic setting of wharves, iron balustrades, blackamoors and grandes dames, Actress Billie Dove softly, sweetly flutters her little wings...