Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horizon. ECA's sailing orders were not explicit. The administrator was ordered to bring back strategic materials in partial recompense for U.S. deliveries. He was to see that none of the $5.3 billion, in the shape of potential war materials, filtered through the Iron Curtain, and that the 16 nations tidied up their economies in a way that suited the U.S. But he was given the widest latitude, chiefly because no one knew exactly how to plot ECA's course beyond the visible horizon...
...snaked around Itabira's core, and test drillings were sunk into the solid heart. The peak's top 300 feet proved out as "compact hematite," red as rust and heavy to the hand-and the best ore there is. Below were huge deposits of "Canga" (54-62% iron) and soft "Itabarite" "(45-52%). After the tests, the work went ahead faster than ever. Though mechanization was by no means complete, Rio Doce was showing results. Last year, 700-odd Brazilian miners, with the help of two U.S. superintendents, dug out 177,000 metric tons of ore, sold...
...government recently subscribed $19 million for Itabira. Last week, after a year of heated negotiations, the finishing touches were being put to a new $7,500,000 Export-Import Bank loan. That meant electric shovels, compressed-air drills and crushing plants for the Iron Mountain. It also meant further improvements on the railroad, new facilities at the port. With all that done, say in two years, Itabira hoped to reach its immediate target: a yearly output of 1,500,000 tons...
...stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...iron bedstead takes up most of the space in Matisse's bedroom, where he spends his afternoons drawing and making cutouts on a breakfast tray. At either side of the bed is a revolving table with drawers printed in chalk, "Pencils," "Pens," "Scissors," "Paper...