Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chartered last week as the new top Van Sweringen holding company. Morgan Partner George Whitney was there with Morgan lawyers. Conspicuously absent was old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who has been built up in the Press as a likely Van Sweringen rival. And toward the rear was the iron-grey head of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen. Brother Mantis James did not attend...
When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early July. Inside the plant, where they had worked, eaten, slept for three days, cowered 18 non-union workers...
...Little has given so much time to his game that at 25 he is still a Stanford undergraduate. His salient talent as a golfer is power. Where his game differs from that of most long hitters is that he utilizes the advantage his wood shots give him by superlative iron play and putting...
Cliff Buyers. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. owns a railroad, lumber tracts, coal mines, chemical works, charcoal plants. It has a large fleet of Great Lakes freighters. Normally it is also a producer of pig iron. But first & foremost Cleveland-Cliffs is a miner of iron ores. Its ore reserves in Minnesota rank second only to those of U. S. Steel Corp. And for that if no other reason Cleveland-Cliffs is a highly desirable property in any steelman's eyes. Whenever steel mergers are rumored, its name is sure...
...connection with a merger report but in a deal in which the principals were certainly not unaware of its merger possibilities. Very quietly a group of Eastern bankers and investment trusts bought, a large block of stock in Cliffs Corp., the holding company superimposed on the iron company. The sellers were supposed to have been Cleveland's rich & pious Mathers, who have dominated the company since it was founded in 1850 by a direct descendant of Puritan Richard Mather.* Only one of the six buyers was identified: Adams Express, which is not an express company...