Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's appointments to the War Resources Board roused a whole closetful of undefined, murmured fears among the New Dealers now running Washington. Chairman of the Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned...
...Morgan Board." By disbanding it, minimizing its report, and chiding its sponsor, Louis Johnson, the President in time's nick snatched a deadly weapon from his foes in the Senate. About all they had left to hit him with then was the reasonable supposition that Big Steel's Stettinius will be back on the pre-war scene in Washington at some more politic time...
...were not sent without scrutiny by German censors, the neutral correspondents also gave the impression that "this is a strange war." They heard little firing, saw few effects of it. They saw only one airplane encounter. They visited evacuated Saarbrücken, reported freight trains still hauling away coal, steel and manufacturing equipment (to the Ruhr) in full view of the French. On the Rhine they stood with German officers in full view of poilus on the other side fishing, sawing wood, washing clothes. They heard stories and saw signs of badinage between the lines. Net effect of what they...
...Iron and steel: Germany $54,124,878; Britain...
...which pervades the lives of these men by using as a background grim, grey chimneys and buildings, in addition to a cold, solid, winter sky. It is not difficult to see that Fiene is attempting to show the gradual degeneration of a human being into a walking piece of steel...