Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the whole natural process is somewhat uncertain--that folk music was dead. The oral tradition, our Jeremiah confided, was no more. And the ubiquitous tape recorders of the Lomax clan have succeeded only in attracting the curious and such aesthetes as might otherwise "mourn the Medieval grace of iron clothing...
Rosenthal lost his advantage, however, in a futile attempt to block the course for his pursuers by closing the large iron gates beneath the Eliot bridge...
...Krupp and Eaton put the final commas in their iron-ore agreement and Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis gives his expected O.K., they can begin construction on the mine and townsite at Hopes Advance Bay next year, start moving pellets to Germany three years later. By 1965 Ungava should be producing 10 million tons of ore a year...
...money. But unlike some visitors, this one wanted not a handout from the U.S. taxpayer but a private loan. Lean, handsome Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 53, chairman of Tata Enterprises, was looking for an additional $17.5 million of private financing for a 700,000-ton expansion of the Tata Iron & Steel Co. works at Jamshedpur, India. Topping a 500,000-ton addition under way, the expansion will raise steel output from 800,000 to 2,000,000 tons by late 1958, make the plant by far the largest integrated steel mill in the sterling area. No one doubted that...
...stories. The founder of the family fortunes was Jamsetji Tata (1839-1904), son of a Bombay merchant. Jamsetji went to England to study industrial techniques, went back to India and started a cotton mill. The mill grew into other enterprises. To cap his lifework, Jamsetji dreamed of starting an iron and steel mill. He died before his plans could be carried out, but three years later, in 1907, his sons started such a mill. Informed of their plans, Sir Frederick Upcott, chairman of the board of Indian Railways, said that Indians were incapable of making steel, swore to eat every...