Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Dakota's steel-grey new Governor Bushfield warned Franklin Roosevelt that the U. S. frontier is not in France, that the West hates...
...orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...
Manufacturing Caterpillar Tractor 10,168,689 3,235,709 Du Pont 88,031,943 50,190,827 Owens-Illinois Glass 9,351,627 5,382,000 Republic Steel 9,044,147 d7,997,825 U. S. Steel 94,944,358 d7,755,914 Westinghouse Elec...
Incomplete as mere earnings figures last week (major food, automobile and building companies had still to report), certain conclusions were inescapable. Steel's tumble was proof of how heavy industry has lagged in the recovery from Depression II. Caterpillar Tractor's drop reflected the slump in farm income. Conversely, Continental Baking's rise shows how industry's more rigid prices make for profits when highly elastic farm or other raw-material prices fall...
...businessmen long ago began singling out other, more stable indicators. They found them in business's cold statistics-carloadings, for example, a good measure of distribution, showing the quantity of goods being shipped; steel operations, a good measure of production, giving a clue to construction; crop prices, a good indicator of farmers' buying power. But on a 3,000-mile-broad continent these were and are only fragmentary answers to the question of "How's U. S. Business...