Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execution" was to take place forthwith, and so Billy's neck was forcibly put on the block; whereupon he was struck with a wet cord that had been chilled, very conveniently, to more or less the temperature of a steel blade. Billy's simpleminded brain reacted most realistically to this mock execution, and it telegraphed the rest of his body that he was "done...
Meanwhile the Vatican, already equipped with gas masks, selected a shelter in which the Pope of Peace will take refuge in case of air raids: a low, round, 15th-Century tower with walls 15 feet thick at the bottom, lined with steel...
...done a great deal of impressive metal decoration for public buildings, rich men's homes, ships, mausoleums, world's fairs. Last week bemonocled, pipe-sucking Mr. Bach discussed with newshawks a metallurgical process which he had developed (after years of research), and which not only delivers stainless steel in a variety of colors but also increases greatly the corrosion resistance of inexpensive chrome steel...
...this time it was clear that something not diminutive was scaring speculators. Day after the Angas rumor, panicky selling avalanched from all over the U. S. U. S. Steel broke through $50. Volume hit 2,890,000 shares and both Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages broke through their previous lows, reaching 131.84 and 26.38 respectively...
Although Fisk helped finance such projects as Bethlehem Steel and the Hudson Tubes, his most famed deal was the creation of American Locomotive Co. in 1901. Baldwin Locomotive Co. controlled two-fifths of the industry and Fisk obtained the necessary options to consolidate the rest into one firm...