Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics saw in the action of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey a spreading of the same movement which took place in the steel industry in the summer of 1923 (TIME, Apr. 21, June 4, July 16, Aug. 13, 1923, STEEL), and prophesied that it would spread to all the oil companies...
...hills about the Wergha Valley awoke. Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffian tribesmen, began his long-awaited offensive on Fez, the northern capital. Guns roared, shells screamed and cracked in vivid detonations, spluttering the ground with jagged, death-dealing steel. Bombs dropped from airplanes whinnied as they tore down to earth where they burst with staggering force. Grenades rasped their ugly barks and poked the earth with their deadly stings. Rifles snapped and bullets spat death. Men lived and men died. The Moroccan War (TIME, May 11 et seq.) entered its most serious phase...
Boston & Maine trains, moseying up the Hoosac Valley to Williamstown, Mass., carried a curious freight this week. In the winter their usual load is milk cans and traveling men; in the spring and autumn milk cans and college boys; in the summer milk cans. But this week big, all-steel specials swept up that dreaming valley, bearing to Williamstown financiers, lawyers, editors, college presidents, diplomats, army and navy officers, savants from all parts of the world, assembling at the invitation of Dr. Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College, for the annual session of the Institute of Politics...
...tonnage statements have not apparently lessened the zest of the investing public for Steel common stock...
...wink and scamper of dice . . . the flicker of honed steel . . the thud of fists . . . the pumping of great black legs. Is this all that Negro gentlemen know of sport ? Last week, those dolts who ha.ve derived their views on the colored race from the stale gags of minstrel shows were amazed to discover that at Westfield, N. J., there is a Negro golf club-the Shady Rest Country Club. Broad piazzas it has, sofas, rocking-chairs, lounges, loggias, beds, in which a tired golfer-or one who may in the future play golf-can catch 40 winks...