Word: steeling
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When he had finished a group of youths in steel helmets formed in line outside the church. Their uniforms were embroidered with swastikas and the letters "L. F." As the Prince emerged they formed around him and escorted him home to his parents who were waiting for their 18-year...
Competition in the steel business is such that all producers are straining every nerve to slash production costs as never before in the history of the industry...
...back to the anchored Bowdoin by air. Next day another start toward Baffin Bay was made, through blinding fog and raging blizzard. In Murchison Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket...
...fine May morning in 1915, the German submarine U-20, cruising off the Irish coast released a. slender steel projectile into the chill Atlantic. The projectile coursed onward like a speeding shark, nestled against a tender leviathan, and the Lusitania went to the bottom...
Recently TIME (July 27 issue, Page 3) made a statement relative to a decision by the Carter Oil Co. to eliminate the twelve-hour day in the petroleum industry, thus "setting the example" for the industry and following a similar decision of the United States Steel Corporation. It was further stated that the twelve-hour day has always been the working basis in the oil fields...