Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little shipyards that line the coast of Nova Scotia, builders are busier than they have been since the days of wooden ships and iron men. Now, as 70 years ago, saws screech through oaken timbers and pine planking; middle-aged craftsmen, wielding adzes, cut keels so that they look as though they had been planed. U.S. yachtsmen and game fishermen set off the boom. They had discovered that Nova Scotians could still build stout, trim sailing craft, besides modern power boats-and build them cheap...
...Herald's Henry Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone in darkest Africa, the Herald scored an exciting scoop.* Last week the Herald Tribune front-paged the results of another notable foray into dark territory: the report of a four-man team of Trib correspondents, on ten weeks behind the "Iron Curtain...
...freight-car shortage had been solved last February. At that time, car builders, steelmakers, railmen and the Office of Defense Transportation agreed on a program to turn out more cars (rising to 10,000 a month by September), and thus solve the shortage once & for all. That program, said Iron Age, "is shot to pieces...
...steelmen, who are blamed by the railmen for the failure of the building program, pointed a finger at the car builders. Walter Sheldon Tower, head of the American Iron & Steel Institute, said that steelmakers had, by Government figures, supplied carmakers with enough steel to build 26,950 cars in June, July and August-5,950 more than the program figure. But production for domestic use in those months totaled only...
Green Light. To keep the nation's railroads "in a reasonably healthy condition," the Interstate Commerce Commission granted their request for an emergency increase of 10% in freight rates. Exceptions on coal, coke and iron ore rates reduced the overall increase to 8.9%. Estimated annual increase in shippers' bills: $700 million...