Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Referring to lake ships you say long round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000. Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors tonnage 41,380,931. Incidentally...
...chief iron-ore-producing region of the United States, moreover, is north and west of Lake Superior; and shipment is made from the northern shore in much greater volume than "from the lake's southern shores...
...annual flow of tonnage through the "Soo" canals is several times that through the Panama, and includes, besides iron, coal and wheat, a miscellany containing among other things thousands of automobiles and a large percentage of the butter and eggs with which the East...
Reginald McNamara lay unconscious on a board track in Madison Square Garden. The judge's watch said quarter to eleven. In a quarter of an hour the six-day race would be over and McNamara, the iron man, whose muscles are stronger than bicycle chains and whose will is a spinning-wheel that never stops, would have shown once more that nobody can beat him. For five days, 23¾ hours, he had almost continuously led the field-then a crash at the corner, a spill over the handlebars, and he lay beside his partner, Linari. The Italian...
...Walter W. Palmer of the Manhattan College of Physicians & Surgeons, has shown such good results at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan, that doctors are telling each other of it. The treatment consists of feeding anemic patients a regulated diet of liver, kidneys and chicken gizzards. These foods contain iron and easily assimilated proteins which the victims need, but which their blood does not manufacture in sufficient quantity...