Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Civil war ended, cannon factories began making fancy grillwork and iron dogs. When railroads made Western stage coach lines obsolescent, Wells Fargo got into the railway express business. With the passing of the horse, Studebaker Carriage works survived by manufacturing automobiles. The return of beer has similarly forced the nation's underworld into evolution. As was amply evidenced last week, the defunct beer racket is swiftly being superseded as a source of criminal revenue by the uglier, more desperate crime of kidnapping. Unlike a legitimate industry, a gang which has been running beer need not modify...
...plane, why, he had not expected it to be so expensive. "Any items on the account not properly chargeable to the Government," declared he, "I will pay myself." ¶ Bunching together his Cabinet and key men in all fields, President Roosevelt created a Council of Recovery to iron out administrative kinks in his national program. The Council meets Tuesday afternoons in place of the Cabinet. Appointed as Council Secretary was Frank C. Walker, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee...
...room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money changed hands, detectives shot the tires off the crooks' car, ran it into an iron fence, found two of the gang in it, beat them unmercifully. The third crook they caught later...
...hour mystic plea that the All-India National Congress Party through its committee should once more abdicate and place all power of decision in the Mahatma's hands. Before he began to speak such action seemed impossible. The committee knew that Viceroy Willingdon, a sahib of iron will, has refused to treat with either the Congress or with Mr. Gandhi until his followers formally abandon mass civil disobedience. Nonetheless the committee could not resist the Mahatma. By an overwhelming majority, they appointed Mr. Gandhi to treat with Lord Willingdon, resolved that mass civil disobedience shall continue until an "honorable...
Professor Johnson was instrumental in the construction of the Stadium on Soldiers Field and determined the kind and strength of iron and concrete necessary for a margin of safety. To test the strain which a crowd of enthusiastic football spectators would put it to, he had the entire varsity squad jump up and down on some trial benches...