Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were high jinks in Wasington, Saturday night, when the newspaper correspondents of that city, with the politically great as their guests, met to hold the annual meeting of the Grid Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege...
...Great Britain the shipbuilding, armament and heavy engineering industries still suffer the after-effects of the War. As result the British iron & steel trade (notably Vickers Ltd., and Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.) has suffered. Last year and the year before Armstrong, Whitworth had heavy losses. Vickers's earnings have been so poor that the company two years ago reduced its capital from $128,420,000 to $88,396,287, in order to make its dividend rate look respectable...
These companies, as well as other British iron & steel concerns, might have joined the European Steel Entente formed a year ago (TIME, Oct. 11, 1926), and prospered. That entente, which lasts until April 1, 1931, includes iron & steel industries of France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Saar. They agreed to limit their production in accordance with the volume of demand; they have made money. Whereas until 1924 Great Britain exported more iron & steel than any other European country, in 1925 France took the lead. Last year Germany became leader (5,348 metric tons). However, England's coal strike last...
Students of the Bronze and Iron Ages in Europe will use the collections in the Fogg Art Museum and in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in addition to the material covering these periods available in the Peabody Museum...
...pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...