Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About Music (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). All-calypso show with the Duke of Iron and the Trinidad Steel Band...
...Iron Curtain was successfully scaled by the U.S.'s Olympic Hammer-Throw Champion Harold Connolly, 25, who, having shaken free of Red tape, planned this week to marry his true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek as best man, Roman Catholic Connolly, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was slated to take his Protestant bride in a civil ceremony (for the Red authorities' benefit), followed by Catholic and Protestant rites...
...such earnings higher than they should be? Said W. Alton Jones, chairman of Cities Service Co.: "Any fair appraisal will show that these earnings have been reasonable and, in fact, have been lower than those of many other major industries, including iron and steel, motor vehicles and equipment, and chemicals. Fair and reasonable industry earnings are necessary if the petroleum industry is to meet its large capital requirements...
...hydroelectric power for three-quarters of its supply, and last year's drought held output to a low 13.75 billion kwh. Faced with such bottlenecks, the Pegaso factories have turned out only 4,000 heavy-duty trucks since 1947, although capacity is 3,000 a year. Shortages of iron ore, coal and electricity cut last year's steel output by 9%, to 1,146,000 tons. Payrolls are overloaded. Until last December, an employer could not fire incompetent or excess workers without paying staggering fines. Many plants that needed only 400 workers had 1,000. Production costs...
Richard G. Langdon '58 and Royall Tyler '57 won the two $35 first prizes in the Boylston speaking contest last night. Langdon delivered the "Iron Curtain" speech given by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri in 1946, and Tyler spoke a part from "Oedipus at Colonus" in Greek...