Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iron Men (by Francis Gallagher; Norman Bel Geddes, producer) presents a scene never before approximated for verisimilitude in the theatre-the uppermost steel skeleton of a skyscraper under construction. Not content with that, Designer-Producer Bel Geddes has put his scene into operation. A giant crane looming up into the flies brings up six or seven big I-beams which are bolted into place before the eyes of the audience. In robust defiance of the "pusher" (man with the blueprints), four steelworkers ride on the ball attached to the crane-hook. Only flaws in this extraordinary feat of artistic naturalism...
...months of 1936 than in any other half-year on record. For the first time since the War Connellsville's 38,900 beehive coke ovens, now obsolete, were pouring soot into the murky atmosphere because the steel companies, short of steel scrap, needed more coke to make pig iron. Dispossessed residents of the ovens got jobs coking in what had been their only Depression shelter...
Happy steel executives were predicting an operating rate of 85% before the year end. U. S. Steel Corp. proposed to share its Pittsburgh prosperity with Birmingham, Ala., by announcing a $29,000,000 tin palate mill for its subsidiary, Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. Cheered were Pittsburgh police when they picked up a 20-year-old California vagrant who explained his presence: "I heard there was a boom in Pittsburgh...
Anyhow, none of that is important except as productive scholarship. The fact that bathroom humor is profitable is all that concerns the present generation, to whom it has indeed been more profitable than was ever before dreamed of. As an example of one man who struck when the iron was hot, consider the not inappropriately named Chick Sale. He made a fairly sizeable fortune by writing a rather dull book on nothing more exciting than a privy--it really isn't very exciting--and he sustained it by donning a false beard and making equivocal remarks for vaudeville audiences...
...Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack-ups and collisions which the crowd had come to see showed no signs of materializing. Instead, the monotony of a beautifully driven race on a course too difficult for real speed was punctuated only by the iron voice of the world's most powerful address system, telling the crowd, picnicking on the roof of the bright blue club house or milling around the huge infield, how far Nuvolari was ahead, and how this or that individual or firm was offering a premium on the next...