Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London View - Professor Thomas' Academy - Pig Iron - Dartmouth and Yale The London Times sees in the Carnegie report a sign of the awakening of the United States to its educational shortcomings, as well as an admission of the existence of those shortcomings. "The state of American education has never been fully understood in this country. There is, on the one hand, a vague belief in its efficiency which has been encouraged by the reports of English educationalists who have been welcomed in the United States and shown many admirable schools which were not perhaps fair samples of the whole...
...would weed out the unfit and set them to their proper tasks. The fit he would educate to greater fitness. And throughout the process he would select and choose and apply, avoiding as he would the devil the folly of "trying to make high-speed tools out of pig iron...
...this Mr. Jim Blake, of Glens Falls, New York, writing in The Outlook, would reply that the Admiral overlooks the claims of pig iron. Pig iron doesn't relish its limitations. It would like nothing better than an infusion of tungsten. And it suffers when it is told to stay pig. Mr. Blake refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were...
...first named industry is now experiencing a veritable boom, attended with record production and mounting prices. Current production of pig iron has surpassed even the unusually active month of March, 1920, which followed the futile steel strike of 1919, and is now only some 3 or 4% below the huge war-time output attained in September, 1918, just before the Armistice. Despite this sensational rate of production recently attained, however, the demand is so urgent and extensive that new price advances have occurred in pig, and in both semi-finished steel and several steel products. Last month the Steel Corporation...
...there is some indication in trade circles that recent price advances are already checking buying. This is natural enough, with pig selling at practically $30 per ton, or about $11.58 above the level of a year ago. In the present type of steel market, the first indication of an important curtailment of either production or prices will, of course, be seen among the independent companies, rather than with the more stable and less speculative Steel Corporation...