Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during the procession and disappeared. It had been picked up and quietly pocketed by an officer who as quietly produced it to his bug-eyed superiors. Normally the Crown reposes with the Sceptre and other Crown Jewels at the lower of London inside a large, round age with heavy iron bars through which peer visitors watched by "Beefeaters...
...under a good trade name. Two young men who did that were Thomas Harry Banfield and the late Cyrus Jury Parker, partners in a Portland, Ore. construction firm that they founded in 1909 with $700 cash. They did not discover their product until 1923, when they bought a local iron works as an adjunct to their contracting...
Among the iron works' assets were jigs, tools, drawings for a mechanical stoker. The original owners carried the stoker on their books at $5,000. The new owners considered it worthless. Idea for the stoker is supposed to have occurred to a greenhouse operator who got sick & tired of hopping out of bed to stoke his furnace on cold nights. The iron works had actually turned out a few crude stokers, using a feeder worm similar to that in a meat chopper. Several months after the iron works changed hands, inquiries began to straggle in from people...
...Today Iron Fireman Manufacturing Co. is the biggest U. S. maker of mechanical stokers, with plants in Cleveland and Toronto as well as its home town of Portland. Last week at a directors' meeting in Portland President Banfield announced that profits for 1935 were more than $600,000-best year in history except for 1929 when Iron Fireman showed earnings of $770,000. At the same time Iron Fireman's directors voted to increase capitalization 20% to finance expansion. Rights will be given to stockholders to buy 60,000 shares of new stock...
Reporters see this little man in horn spectacles waddle through the great iron gates of the Quai d'Orsay and up to the Premier's state apartments several times each week. Although known principally today as Paris' No. 1 Astrologer, M. Privat has behind him many years of working journalism. He is the author of a fat stack of works comprising his investigations of celebrated judicial cases, exotic crimes and the lives of statesmen he knew as a reporter. The incredible report which much of Paris now avidly believes is that Astrologer Privat assists Premier Laval from...