Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...
Handsome & tall Cyrus Stephen Eaton, who has his fingers on the Republic Iron & Steel Co., the Trumbull Steel Co. and the Inland Steel Co., crooked two of his fingers last week and the merger...
...more persons each. Few good highways, little mineral resources and especially a paucity of coal mines hamper the factories. They must import almost all their raw materials. Expensive materials and frail employes explain why textiles constitute the chief manufactured products of Italy, why food products come next, why steel and engineering industries have progressed slowly. If Italy had at least cheap motive power for her factories, they could become larger, more numerous and more productive of diversified goods. And Italy has in her mountains great stores of potential power-her precipitate rivers. Great electric power companies have built hydroelectric plants...
Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet...
...point out that behind such preposterous euphemism as "He spoke as to cheek and chin of the joy of the mutational steel" when he might have said "He was clean shaven," Henry James concealed only a frustrated and mediocre intellect may be heresy to this day in the purlieus of Beacon Hill, but the fact remains and the judicious know...