Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last time Jones was pressed was when playing lean, impassive George Voigt, best iron-shot maker of U. S. amateurs but a short driver, whose amateur standing was once questioned by the U. S. G. A. on the suspicion that he was giving golf lessons to his Washington, D. C. employer. Jones missed a five-foot putt on the 8th, another at the 10th and cut his drive into a whin at the 12th. Voigt was two up. Here Voigt began to slip. He drove out of bounds and lost the 15th. At the Railway Hole he played into Principal...
Mighty in England are the Lancashire coal, iron and steel companies known as the Pearson & Knowles group. Mighty too is Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Under last week's plan the metal units of these two rivals will be grouped as Lancashire Steel Corp. This company will be capitalized at $27,745,000, will be controlled by Securities Management Trust through the purchase of 500,000 voting shares at £1 each. Next fall new capital will be brought to the company by selling a large issue of 7% preferred to J. Henry Shroder & Co., potent international bankers. The coal units...
...Canada. Canada has no central bank, no Montagu Norman, but it has many able financiers. During the past year these have labored on the same problem?reviving the iron and steel industry. Last week, their plans approved, the mechanism of a tremendous reorganization stirred...
...steel companies on which the Holt-Gundy group has been working are headed by British Empire Steel Corp., mighty in name but feeble in earnings. Into its pyramid of steel, coal and iron companies many receivers have tried to gain passage, have been halted only by the improvements that followed the purchase of control by Holt-Gundy...
...Publisher. Carl Byoir made a fortune from patent medicines and cosmetics, among them Nuxated Iron and Blondex, etc. He visited Havana in 1928 because he heard the climate would relieve his sinus affliction. Constitutionally unable to remain inactive-or to stomach Cuban bread-he started an "American" bakery. But this could not for long absorb a man who served in Europe on President Wilson's Wartime Committee on Public Information; who after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence...