Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adolfo bought the Alfieri Maserati firm, then financially foundering, as an addition to his scrap-iron and farm-implement businesses, later used the plant as the base of a new machine-tool business. Racing cars were only the frosting on the cake to give the tools a famous name. By last year the combination was bringing in $3,000,000 annually. But along with the cash came trouble...
...case of Bellandi v. Bishop Fiordelli exposes the age-old intolerance of the Catholic Church. How much longer will people realize that there is no more freedom for dissenters behind the scarlet curtain (Italy, Spain, Colombia, etc.) than there is behind the Iron Curtain...
...ground, Prestes will probably strive for re-establishment of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Russia, legality for his party, increased membership. During his last period of freedom, from 1945 to 1947, he built membership from 900 to 130,000, making Brazil's Communist Party the fifth biggest outside the Iron Curtain...
When Astrolite is exposed to a blast of high-temperature gas, a thin layer of the plastic on the surface burns off, leaving a mat of silica fibers arranged so that they cannot be easily blown away. At 3,000° F. (about the melting point of iron), they begin to soften, but melted silica is sticky, viscous stuff that clings tight until it turns to vapor. The vaporizing process draws heat from the remaining Astrolite and tends to keep it cool...
...Tree of Idleness. After a hilarious session of Near Eastern haggling, Author Durrell took over "an iron key the size of a man's forearm" to a house in the sleepy, whitewashed mountain village of Bellapaix. Under "the Tree of Idleness" in the village square, the town greybeards sipped Turkish coffee and played a sempiternal game of cards. To Durrell's knowledge no one ever died, and the town gravedigger had to eke out a living digging cesspits. Each day toward twilight, a dozen cattle burst across the main street at racehorse pace, urged on by a bearded...