Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil marriage is required in many other countries on either side of the Iron Curtain, e.g., France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Yugoslavia...
Panic spread fast as news of the state of siege exploded over Bogota. Tanks rumbled into the plazas. Rifle-toting troopers turned Congressmen away from the Capitol. Rumors spread through Carrera Septima crowds that Liberal leaders had been assassinated. Panicky shopkeepers slammed down their iron shutters. People stampeded. One woman, asked why she was running, answered: "Because everyone else is." An Austrian who had seen Dollfuss take over Vienna in 1932 said: "It is not only the same but exactly the same...
...skies and smoky haze of a steel industry by 1953. With the migration of the textile companies southward, the six nodtheastern states had begun to ask themselves if their leadership in small industry was finished. But with the discovery a few years ago of a rich vein of iron ore in Newfoundland and Labrador came the hope of an even greater share of the nation's manufacturing wealth. As it stands now, plans are being made to build as steel mill in one of New England's seaports before 1953 and to set up shipping traffic in ore between that...
Until the source of ore in Labrador can be fully exploited, the steel mill can get its raw material from the already developed mines in Belle Isle, Newfoundland. The Mystic River Iron Works now produces 500 tons of pig iron daily from the Newfoundland ore. But the Belle Isle vein is not as rich as the ones in Labrador; thus, the further expansion of the New England steel industry will have to wait until a transportation system is established through the Canadian hinterland. Though a truck road now cuts across Labrador, it will be a few years before a railroad...
...house his school, which he named Cooper Union, the wealthy inventor (a washing machine, the "Tom Thumb" locomotive, a musical cradle that rocked itself) and iron and glue manufacturer had built a handsome five-story structure on Astor Place, hired 21 faculty members. Two thousand artisans and working girls enrolled the first year for the Union's free courses, e.g., mathematics, chemistry, mechanical philosophy, theoretical and practical mechanics, drawing, vocal music. Cooper established weekly lectures in social philosophy, set up a public library and reading room, and a school of design to train "respectable females" for suitable jobs...