Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emphasizing the merits of journalism as a career Mr. Vanderlip voices the opinion of many. It is perhaps the only profession left that can appeal to the "gentleman adventurer" type of mind. For since steel has gone out of fashion lead is the only metal available for those who would live by their wits. The game of course has its drawbacks, some of which Mr. Vanderlip points out in his criticism of the press. A criticism not as virulent as Mr. Upton Sinclair's, but their if everyone criticized as Mr. Sinclair what would become of Mr. Sinclair...
...extended period of unemployment, nor any serious labor surplus is anticipated by the Employment Service. While metal industries, machinery, foundries and repair shops are now marking time, and while the railroads laid off many men during December, many lines of business?such as the iron and steel industry, automobile manufacturing and some branches of the textile trade?now possess a better tone...
Charles A. Templeton, Governor of Connecticut: "It was reported that I have had the word 'Governor' engraved on a metal plate at the end of my pew in the Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church at Waterbury...
...inroads of civilization in the wilder parts of the continent this material is fast disappearing. For example, as Mr. Willoughby pointed out, when a native secures a tin can of any kind from white men, it is likely to replace the utensil that he formerly fashioned from wood or metal for himself...
During November, 1923, the U. S. exported $746,000 of gold, and imported $39,757,000, leaving the heavy import balance of $39,011,000. Thus far this year this country has received $290,137,000 of gold, while American exports of the precious metal here amounted to only...