Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Green named Messrs. Woll, Rickert and Bricklayer Harry Bates to the committee which at Franklin Roosevelt's behest will seek "peace with honor" with C. I. 0. (TIME, March 6). John Lewis matched them with a C. I. 0. committee consisting of himself, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray (steel...
...weakening it and placing it at the service of invaders. Choose! If you offer us peace you will find generous Spanish hearts. If you continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience the responsibility for the destruction of our country...
...bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
...Wall Street Journal this week headlined: BUSINESS IN 15-WEEK SIDEWISE MOVE; BREAK EXPECTED TO BE ON 'UP' SIDE. Evidence to support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
...Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase...