Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they have sent to Spain actually remain instructors, do as little fighting as possible. But while German volunteers are generally 18 to 20 years old, completing their own army training under actual battle conditions, Russian "volunteers" are fortyish, of the generation of Old Bolsheviks now being liquidated by Steel Man Stalin. Recently Russia has sent no more Soviet aviators, but gladly trains Spanish Leftist cadets on Russian soil...
...history of lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...
Similar was the fate of $48,000,000 of Bethlehem Steel debentures. In the month beginning Sept. 8 when they were offered, Bethlehem stockholders bought but $2,000,000 worth. Last week, therefore, the underwriters had to take over the remainder of the issue and offer it to the public. The 25 underwriting firms, headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bought the debentures at $98, intending to sell them at $100, thus getting a 2% commission minus expenses. But during the month they were obliged to wait for company stockholders to buy, the market fell so far that last week Bethlehem...
...Statue of Liberty were laid in a coffin and floated in New York Harbor, it would be lighter and no simpler to maneuver than a timber-lagged steel tank which this week started on a 1,371-mi. trip from Jersey City, N. J. to Whiting, Ind., at the foot of Lake Michigan. There it will be stood on one end, and, towering Soft., will serve as a low pressure evaporator tower for distilling crude oil for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana ("Stanolind"). Construction and delivery of the tank was accompanied by a great shattering of records...
...remove invisible internal stresses from the steel, the mammoth tank was rolled into a vast annealing furnace, where oil burners made it red hot. Workmen inched the completed 230-ton tank out of the Kellogg shop and onto two of the ten longest (55-ft.) flatcars in the world. Railroad curves, bridges and tunnels between Jersey City and Whiting did not permit freightage of Stanolind's tank. So the Lehigh Valley R.R. hauled it two miles to the west bank of the Hudson. All traffic on the railroad had to stop while this went...