Word: pigging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the war Republic operated the plant for the Defense Plant Corp., after the war continued to operate it under an interim lease. The WAA plant supplied iron for Republic's Cleveland mills and that, in turn, made it possible for Republic to sell pig iron from its other blast furnaces to hundreds of Northeastern foundries. With a defense program on, White did not think that the Government would disturb this complex setup...
...from 700,000 to 1,400,000 tons a year, or one-sixth of all Republic's needs. Republic thought the day was not too distant when all its steel would be made from Adirondack ores. Its Adirondack ore reserves were big enough to keep the company in pig iron for 50 years...
...scrimped a living in the '30s. " 'I'd rather be embalmed here than any place I know,' [Hirschfeld] said slowly. He turned up the collar of his trench coat and lit a cigarette, and in the flare of the match I saw that his tiny pig eyes were bright with tears...
...European cocktails spill on the oriental rugs from glasses negligently tilted or moved in too hasty gesticulation. There are lavish loads on two great buffet tables: platters of sliced veal and chicken, salads in splendid variety, tidy piles of caviar. In the center of one table is a roast pig (with a tomato in its mouth) which is gradually dissected by Soviet officers as the gay evening advances...
...such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy weaned his pig, and all the while the guards are after restraining the onlookers...