Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the probable industries to be forced into cartels are coal, iron, steel, textiles, shipbuilding. Since the Conservative Party is dominated by industrialists they will be the class favored in opposition to the financial, reatier, and labor groups. Labor can be bought off by a meaningless advisory board which can be proclaimed in glory and stified at leisure, and the rentier class can be taken in by the prospect of no write-off of bad investment. Then the government entrepreneurs can proceed to scotch both of them by the invisible, intangible method of raising prices by restriction of production...
...jail and court house that evening. When some rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered out the local militia tank company. Tankmen were lifted bodily out of their iron nests. After a four-hour siege, Sheriff Otto Theisen emerged from his smoky barricade...
Having beaten Missouri on Thanksgiving Day, Kansas earned the name of "Iron Man Team" by beating George Washington University two days later...
...collected $5,000 of the $30,000 purse. Peden sped on to Cleveland to begin another grind three days later. For the whole meet, 1,064 laps were stolen, a new U. S. record. The victory of Peden & Letourner was less surprising than the complete collapse of the aging "iron man," Reginald James McNamara. Nobody expected McNamara, at 46, to win, but likewise no one expected him to do so miserably. Rusty, battered, wearing 47 scars, McNamara and his blond partner, Charles Winter, had tied for the lead briefly in the early stages. At the end they barely kept their...
...Laidler opened his speech with a description of the vast extent of monopoly in certain fields. According to figures given by him, the United States Steel Corporation controls one half to two-thirds of the iron ore of the country, the Mellon family controls 90 per cent of the aluminum ore, and that seven-eighths of the chewing-gum in the United States is manufactured by Wrigley. He also said that one per cent of the banks of the country control more capital than the other 99 per cent combined...