Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forged 100-peso notes and by last week exasperated Government officials had decided there was only one way to stop it. Argentina will destroy her entire paper currency of 1,100,000,000 pesos ($286,000,000) and substitute new notes. This time the issue will be printed from steel-engraved plates instead of by the cheaper lithographic process, which big-time forgers found easy to duplicate...
...York Exchange in October, 1929, when securities were plunging down at the rate of ten points a day, Mr. Whitney temporarily halted the crash. Representing the hastily-formed pool of Morgan and other bankers to save the market, he bid high on 25,000 shares of Steel and saved the day, thus creating the "Black Thursday" legend. Later, as President of the Exchange, he was a truculent critic of the Administration, since he opposed federal regulation of security markets. To end the feud between Wall Street and the S.E.C., friends and foes forced Whitney to retire...
Although I have found TIME heretofore a very exacting magazine, I noticed an error in the Feb. 14 issue. The party, or "Mock Bachelors' Cotillion" as you termed it [which young Blaine Fairless, son of U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, helped organize], actually had a receiving line of young men [not young women] holding bouquets of vegetables. Mr. Fairless was one of this number...
...irons (see cut). The irons would also be used to meld the cracks between the blocks after they are laid down. Liquid Iceolite is poured into molds, congeals into blocks 2 by 3 ft. and 1½ in. thick. They can be laid on any level surface-wood, concrete, steel, or whatnot. Since it is impervious to moisture and hot weather, Iceolite can be skated on in any climate and at any season. Its makers offer, by adding the proper dyes, to furnish it in any color...
...paid him, but in return he will be able to write all the liberal, pro-New Deal pieces he wants, will find his work highly ballyhooed. While his old boss. Managing Editor 0. K. Bovard of the Post-Dispatch, was reported submitting Anderson's scoop on the Chicago steel massacre newsreels for Pulitzer Prize consideration, jaunty Crusader Anderson cracked: "Messrs. Pulitzer* and Bovard think of me as a lemon out of which they squeezed all the juice. We'll see about that...