Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their itinerary in this country includes visits to industrial plants around New York City, to the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, to the Ford and General Motors plants at Detroit, to the steel mills at Pittsburgh and Gary and to the electric plants at Niagara...
...luncheon tendered to Latin American consular representatives by the Whitehall Club, Manhattan, President James A. Farrell of the U. S. Steel Corporation spoke...
Their bicycles were not built for two. Taut skeletons of aluminum and steel, so light that they can be lifted on a stiff forefinger, so strong that they can endure terrific smashes, their racing bicycles reveal what a strenuous age has done to an engine once fitted for leisured lovemaking and connubial perambulation. The wiry men who rode them did not all look sweet upon the seats; their faces, as they swept around the track for the first lap, presented a jumbled cinema of anxiety, hope, fear, ferocity and desperate determination. Two to a team, they relieved one another periodically...
Next day an airplane whirled and swooped over Passaic. It contained a cinema cameraman. Two armored cars lumbered through the streets. They shielded reporters. In steel helmets, with gas-masks strapped to their shoulders, strikers paraded past the mill, two by two. The Passaic Chamber of Commerce asked Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to "mediate" the strike. An inventor, one Edward Moore, offered Mayor McGuire of Passaic his "centrifugal riot gun, which shoots 4,000 shots a minute and is effective at a mile and a half." The offer was not accepted. The police...
Last week idlers in Florida beheld what is now known as "a protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...