Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the pack hit the homestretch, there was Iron Liege coming on to take the lead. Bold Ruler was out of it, despite a desperate whiplashing by Arcaro. Closing fast from almost last at the start was English-bred Gallant Man, ridden by California's great Willie Shoemaker. Driving for the wire, Gallant Man inched past Iron Liege. And then Jockey Shoemaker made a horrendous mistake. Thinking he had crossed the finish line, he eased off Gallant Man and stood up in the stirrups. It checked Gallant Man for an eye flick-and in that instant the issue...
...SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, which picked Iron Liege as a possible champion the day he was foaled (March 11, 1954), hopefully followed his progress with photo and pen to the winner's circle at the Derby...
...shown by many other financial reporters. When University of Illinois Economist V. Lewis Bassie proclaimed during a recent Cleveland debate that "we're in the beginning of a postwar depression cycle," the emphasis, in stories was on his charge, not the rebuttal. Says Editor Tom Campbell of The Iron Age magazine: "Never has so much ink been spattered around about a 'downturn.' The general theme seems to be that if we are not headed for the roof we must drop to the cellar...
Into the Armco Steel Corp. plant at Houston this week rolled three carloads of iron smelted by a radical new process. Developed by a Hungarian-born inventor, Julius Madaras, and financed by Oilman Clint Murchison and others, the process eliminates the blast furnace and promises to smelt iron cheaper and faster...
Armco had agreed to dump the iron into its electric furnaces to see if it worked as well as blast-furnace iron in the making of steel. On hand for the important test this week, the biggest to date, were observers from Jones & Laughlin, Granite City Steel and Colorado Fuel and Iron...