Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that movie houses show only cheerful pictures in an attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats for $30,000 to $50,000-a world so jittery that a decline in U. S. Steel to $195 a share meant a panic-would not have believed that the national wealth could drop by some $62,000,000,000 in a few years, or that the nation could survive...
...growth and acceptance of a native American art-the Iowa landscapes of Grant Wood, serene and sunny; the turbulent Missourians of Thomas Benton (see cut, p. 31), calling up the hard-eyed, banjo-playing, riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look...
...steel industry, with its 410 steel mills centred around Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham so vast that the four largest can produce more steel than all Germany. The automobile industry which in a year produces 2,500,000 motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or indirectly employs 6,380,000 workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales...
...bicycles, travel books, pianos, phonograph records, violins, skis, garden seed, sailboats-a vast index of their tastes and needs, as fundamental to the U. S. temperament as the commercialism generally applied to it. If the iron ore of the Mesabi made it inevitable that there should be a vast steel industry in the U. S., the first glimpse of the Rockies, steel-blue and airy, made it inevitable that there would always be a U. S. market for pack saddles; and the first glimpse of the Yellowstone or the Shoshone bounding down the endless rapids insured the making of canoes...
...another British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo...