Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen with the naked eye. The walls of the square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields to the south and one to the north. The new airstrip, hastily carved out of dirt road this week, is across...
...devoted there would be compensations. Talk about 'building bridges of understanding'! The Iron Curtain cuts off Russia and central Europe, but it has not yet been demonstrated that there is an Oriental Iron Curtain. Perhaps China is the one place on the globe where an imaginative church, with great experience of the land, could be a leaven able to penetrate the brittle hardtack of Communism...
...iron men spent one hour on the road in making repairs, and another hour staring at Plymouth Rock...
...encourage the development of the whitefish industry and to provide for safer milk ... to improve water supplies to Scotland . . ." And finally he came to the explosive paragraph: "A measure will be laid before you to bring under public ownership those companies extensively engaged in the production of iron ore, or of pig iron or steel or in the shaping of steel by a rolling process...
...free-enterprise system should be presented. He thought the job should be done locally, that national ad campaigns by big trade and lobbying groups were too general to be effective. "Besides," says he, "there's a feeling that anything that the National Association of Manufacturers or the American Iron & Steel Institute do has the kiss of death...