Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have never met General Hugh Johnson," wrote Mr. Pegler, "so I don't think I can be accused of log-rolling or back-scratching when I remark that 'Old Iron' pants,' as the boys used to call him around the NRA, is turning out a really good newspaper column these days. This is a bit of a surprise. . . . Whenever it was that Old Ironpants made his first attempt at this line of work, he seemed to be writing with his elbows, and apparently didn't have what it takes...
...York County House of Detention. Next day two obscure Brooklyn coal dealers named Nowosatka and Slutzky were arraigned in Felony Court on a charge of receiving stolen property. Fortnight ago a grand jury indicted them for dealing in coal stolen from the Pennsylvania property of Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. and trucked into New York. The truck drivers were named as witnesses. Last week the grand jury followed up its indictment by recommending immediate war on the bootleg coal business by which more than 10,000 jobless Pennsylvania anthracite miners have kept themselves alive during Depression and which has lost...
When U. S. Steel absorbed Kirkpatrick, Sheldon and his well-to-do father-in-law put up $300,000 between them to form Allegheny Steel & Iron Co. with a small plant for producing specialty steel. Since then Allegheny Steel (which dropped the "Iron" in 1905) has lost money in only one year-1932. Hicks and Sheldon interests still own most of it. In 1923 Allegheny became the first commercial U. S. producer of stainless steel, licensed under German patents held by the Chemical Foundation, Inc.* Today, with the company near the top of its class, the piles of scrap steel...
...enough for Harvard merely to protest that it knows no stamp and has produced no type. The myth must be blown skyhigh, like the rumor of the iron in raisons or the alleged intimacy between Camels and Mrs. Cabot's throat...
Among the dozen or so big U. S. companies in the business of forging, casting, hammering, machining & building out of wood, iron and steel the strong and powerful implements of railroading, Baldwin Locomotive has a big place. Of the three big U. S. makers of that essential giant, the locomotive, it is by far the oldest (founded 1831). In 1929 it outsold American Locomotive, its big competitor. But long before 1929, Baldwin, in common with makers of cars, couplings, air brakes, signals and other railroad necessities, had felt the effects of the peculiar industrial dependence under which they operate. Good...