Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it was quite clear last week that negotiations for the German-Russian Pact began at least six months before June 16, it was equally clear that the Far East figured in the Berlin-Moscow dicker. Here was evidence in silver and steel that Russia had traded Germany a free sphere in Eastern Europe for one in Eastern Asia...
...Paris, where it has become routine to guard the nation's art against the menace of German guns, the doors of the Louvre were locked and workmen began stolidly to remove its treasures. Some were stored behind steel walls in the Bank of France; others were carted off to hiding places in the country. Rare books and manuscripts were spirited away from shelves of the National Library; the Chateau de Versailles and the Trianons, stripped of their furnishings, lay empty and bare. Cathedral cities heard the tattoo on wood as scaffoldings went up. From Chartres' Cathedral (one mile...
...Iron & Steel...
...seconds later Engineer Hecox felt the monster locomotive swerve. The locomotive and its two power cars ripped loose from the train, plunged bumping across the steel bridge, sideswiping telegraph poles, coming at last to a miraculous halt on the other side. But to all but four of the remaining cars came disaster. Six jumped the bridge, plunged 15 feet to the drying riverbed. One car was skewered by a steel girder. Bodies and bits of bodies blotted the wreckage...
Although only Packard had announced its prices at last week's end, price cuts below 1938's levels were likely to be made in other lines. Last spring, when the steel industry was bogged down in a soggy market (TIME, May 8), it pulled its production rate out of the bog by making concessions to hard-boiled motormakers' buyers: an average of about $6 a ton below published price lists. The steel industry, more worried about production than prices at the time, also guaranteed its concessions to the end of this year. By piling...