Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to the Russian Ukraine's traditional obstinacy Germany would encounter the fact that the Ukraine of 1938 is not only rich but apparently pretty well satisfied. Iron, steel, machine-building and chemical industries dot the Donetz region. Kharkov, birthplace and longtime capital of the Soviet Ukraine, is an industrial city specializing in farm equipment. Instead of growing only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author...
Under Michael Savage the Government took over, by a series of socialistic laws, direct control of railroads, broadcasting, reserve banking, iron and steel output. Wages were jacked up, hours cut. Unionism was made compulsory. Rising prices were checked. Last September Prime Minister Savage said there was plenty more to be done if New Zealanders wished to do it. An October election gave him the mandate, whereupon he at once originated the program which had businessmen so perturbed last week: exchange control...
Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History last week exhibited an extraordinary collection of objects: a stony meteorite with a charred black surface, about the size of a military hand grenade and weighing four pounds; part of a garage roof; the steel turret top of an automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board. These things were acquired for the Museum, at a price which its officials last week refused to reveal, by Ben Hur Wilson, amateur astronomer of Joliet, Ill. They originally belonged to Edward McCain, resident of the small Illinois mining town of Benld...
...being ecstatically hailed by the fiery islanders in Ajaccio and Bastia, French warships circled the island. No Corsican-and no Italian-could have failed to get the point that this was a modern version of the old Norse magic of surrounding a spot with fire (in this case, navy steel) to keep out evil (Italians...
...Atherton '05, President of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation; Edgar B. Stern '07, former President of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange; Francis Biddle '09, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board; Clarence B. Randall '12, former President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, vice-president of the Inland Steel Co.; and William Tudor Gardiner '14, ex-Governor of Maine, and former Overseer...