Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vastly increased. The members of this family have always been uniquely international. When their vast Lorraine estates lay upon soil politically German they attached to their name the prefix von and turned their eyes toward Berlin: when the political frontier shifted under their rich deposits of coal and iron, they altered the prefix to de and looked to Paris...
...must look higher than to Schneider-Creusot for the final answer. For far overtopping Schneider-Creusot and its subsidiaries stands that great organization of iron and steel manufactures the co mite des Forges de France...
...Comite des Forges is not as it has frequently been called, the "French Steel Trust." It is not a cartel. Individual French iron and steel companies are bound together by rigid agreements covering quotas and prices in to great groups like the Comptoir Siderurgique de France or into lesser ones like the Comptoir des Rails or the Comptoir des Demi-Products. The Comite cannot be said to "combine" these organizations; in actually, however, it remains the most powerful iron and steel organization in France. It does not sell; it does not produce. Its activities are more subtle, more delicate than...
...been the outstanding measure which the new administration has proposed. The codification of big industries such as iron and coal is wholly commendable but undoubtedly the difficulties which have arisen from the collective bargaining clause have caused deviations from the intended course. The wrong ideas which were incorporated in haste now stand out more clearly. Honest constructive criticism which will separate the wheat from the chaff is needed to set the NRA buck on its course. No thoughtless and prejudiced bombardment can help...
Before 1914 the great iron mines and smelters in the Briey basin provided 70 per cent of the ore used by France. The German advance wrested them from the political control of France--and quite naturally the German artillery chiefs saw to it that the mines were so protected from shell fire that they could be taken over intact. Thenceforth the mines of the Briey basin were operated for the benefit of Germany--in association with other mines in Lorraine which had been in German hands since 1871 they supplied Germany with some three quarters of the ore she consumed...