Word: white-hot
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...production to meet the special demands of each customer. Raw steel arrives at the plant in slabs as long as 16 feet, as thick as six inches, as heavy as eight tons. Shoved into three furnaces at the beginning of the production line, the slabs are cooked to a white-hot 2250°. Then, with a thud that echoes the whole length of the plant, a slab slides from the furnaces' fiery maw onto the world's widest roller table-98 inches. Under the direction of a few men pushing buttons, it whizzes down the table considerably faster...
...When one white-hot iron is on a good smith's anvil, another should be in the fire heating. Such is Franklin Roosevelt's way of working. So he worked last week. While all eyes were intent on the shower of sparks that his hammer set flying from the Supreme Court issue, the happy Presidential smith had another iron quietly buried in the coals...
...Northern Ireland were in a confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith in this people's rights-a day of strong, inflexible faith in the destiny...
...Shanghai, where well-to-do Chinese are cold to the white-hot flame of Chinese patriotism, hospital bulletins on the Premier were anxiously snatched as fast as they came in. Next day, at a rumor that Wang was dead, panic began to sweep Shanghai's Exchange. Solid gold bars- "the only safe thing"-soared up as everything else fell. Then gold receded as the Premier's condition was said to be "satisfactory." Same day Shooter Sun died of wounds...
...Dublin office the President was trying to draft a white-hot Irish reply to the damp reminder he received fortnight ago from Secretary for the Dominions James Henry ("Jim") Thomas that His Majesty's Government "stands on" the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and stickles for the oath and the annuities...