Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike had for many months been in force at the collieries of the British Empire Steel Corporation at New Waterford, near Sydney, on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Intransigence on the part of employers and employed had made settlement of the dispute impossible...
Except for the distant roaring of the steel foundries of Charles M. Schwab, and the irreverent cannonade of a thunderstorm whose salvos rocked high heaven and shook the windows of the church wherein burghers and visitors had gathered to hear the trombone choir and the local soloists deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth...
Long Distance Clinic. Heart in New York. Dr. James A. Greer, heart specialist, in Chicago. Dr. Samuel W. Lambert* and 1,500 physicians on the Steel Pier, Atlantic City. Six thousand miles of telephone and telegraph wires. The new method of telephotographing. The electrical stethoscope arid recording device for heart beats, perfected by Dr. H. B. Williams of Columbia University. Loud speakers. Stereopticon...
...Manhattan, before the American Iron and Steel Institute, British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard made a speech. He began: "It is a great honor. . . . But, like all honors or privileges-if we except the ancient British Order of the Garter, which Disraeli said he particularly admired because there was no damned merit attached to it-it entails some responsibility." Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments...
...Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas...