Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest nations in South America. Irrigation and cheap electric power are all that would be needed to enable the marvelously fertile Cauca valley to supply food for at least the entire country. Then, once mechanization of agriculture has been achieved, largely untapped sources of oil, coal, and iron are sufficient to support the conversion of Colombia into a modern industrial state. Her greatest tragedy is that the capital she desperately needs for economic development is instead being used to support an oppressive dictatorship...
...Hungary a gallant, leaderless rebellion against Russia's iron rule gave promise of success-until Russia turned its retreating tanks around and set out to crush the revolt...
...bare-boned utilitarianism. Once the problem is analyzed, he insisted, "We must heed the imperative voice of emotion." This meant exalting the loftiness of the building as "the very open organ-tone of its appeal." For Sullivan, the organ-tone required its grace notes as well: the wrought-iron and terracotta decoration he lavished on his buildings, inside and out (opposite...
Have Faith. Two nights before Mindszenty's dramatic release by the Hungarian rebels, another Iron Curtain prelate was freed: Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. Prodded by fervent demands for his release from all over Poland, the Gomulka regime sent emissaries to Wyszynski's monastery exile in the Carpathian Mountains to bring him back. Last week the cardinal was driven by a government sedan through a cold rain to the grey stone archbishop's palace in Warsaw. Next day, after meeting with clergy from all over Poland, he went out before the waiting crowds. They cheered, wept...
Among them are Iowa's Amana Refrigerator, Inc., which concentrates its advertising budget on home freezers, claims to be the biggest producer of them; Michigan's Ironrite Co., which grosses $6,000,000 a year by renting ironing machines, letting housewives apply payments toward later purchase of ironers; Philadelphia's Proctor Electric Co., which turned out an iron with steam holes over its entire sole rather than just the tip, now has sales galloping 300% ahead of last year...