Word: mille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons yearly. The U. S. sells to all comers, principally Canada and Japan. The latter has recently been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight...
Iron & steel mill products...
...zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities qualify him to make strong men cower and women swoon. Bela's zombie factory is going full-blast. Corpses carry baskets, grind the mill, do the upstairs work. Bela Lugosi suggests to half-good, half-bad Robert Frazer that they turn Madge into a zombie. After moral convulsions, Frazer gives Madge Bellamy a rose on which is a drop of potent magic. After the wedding ceremony, Bela Lugosi cuts a woman's figure...
...whatever romantic aspects it may once have possessed. The rest of Lady & Gent is in quite another mood. At the house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter. In a desperate attempt to dissuade him, Slag attacks his ward, wins his point by taking one more licking. Good shot...
Outstanding competitor in this year's Olympic 1,500-metre run should be Gene Venzke, 23-year-old graduate this spring from the Pottstown, Pa., High School. Last winter Venzke, who used to run to work in a Reading, Pa., steel mill, ran an indoor mile in 4:10, breaking Nurmi's record by 2 sec. Another world record breaker is George Spitz, Jr., 20-year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing...