iron

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Profits from King Cotton helped sustain the growth of Northern insurance, banking, shipping and textile firms, and flowed indirectly into the dynamic development of railroads, iron manufacture and other modern industries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Your challenge now is to iron out the IRA and house questions.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

But we live in an era when instantaneous certitude about everything, an iron conviction in subjective judgment in the face of objective uncertainty, is the only guarantee of a hearing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

It covers the early production of bronze – a copper and tin alloy – up to the first uses of iron.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

"There's this guy at the junior high, Ben Fraser, who has humungous muscles. And he got them by pumping iron."

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry