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Along the Germano-Polish frontier heavy earth charges of dynamite sent clods, cement and steel hurtling...
...Capitulates. Chang and Sun met at Nanking, west of Shanghai, last week. The tall, heavy-muscled Chang curtly told the man from whom he had accepted $2,000,000 that gold was a thing of the past. Remained steel and lead. In these Chang predominated. He Would be generous. Sun might keep his head upon his shoulders...
...rising generation of Spaniards, suffering from the taunts of soft tender-hearted foreigners, has objected. They wish their bullfights; they wish the bull to attack the horse; but they will accept an attack involving less gore, less evisceration. To this end horses have been provided with experimental steel armor, led into rings, offered to angered bulls. But from the standpoint of all (save the horses) steel armor has been a failure. The bulls have refused to bruise their horns against the unyielding protection...
...earnings of great corporations in transportation, communication, power & light, cinema, or automotive, iron and steel industries are important for two main reasons: 1) They are barometers of the rise and fall of prosperity; 2) the multitude of the stock and bond holders depends on their earnings for livelihood and luxury. But there exists a vastly greater number of concerns, more or less obscure, more or less subsidiary, whose earnings constitute a greater part of U. S. income. A few such concerns, and their 1926 earnings as reported recently...
...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...