Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against Communism may be called "consumer-goods propaganda" because it is based on the endless repetition of the affirmation of high American living standards. This is like the rich man's bragging about his richness before poor people who can never become rich. What the people behind the Iron Curtain really need is for the U.S. to get rid of the Communist yoke-and not an exhibition of U.S. consumer goods...
...State Dulles at his news conference replied that he would be "very sorry" to see the Algerian crisis, with its "great difficulty and complexity," become a U.S. problem. And "if anyone is interested in going after colonialism," said Dulles, he should look to the enslaved nations behind the Iron Curtain. Added Dwight Eisenhower at his midweek press conference: the "best role" for the U.S. is to "try to be understanding to both sides in any quarrel . . . That means often you work behind the scenes because you don't get up and begin to shout about such things, or there...
...Nathan H. Knorr, president of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, announced that Jehovah's Witnesses now have 700,000 members in 162 countries. "Our numbers have tripled in Poland in the last seven years," he said, "although we are banned and persecuted in all Iron Curtain countries." Witness growth he attributed to the sense of being faced by a "deadline"-the Battle of Armageddon, which Witnesses calculate will take place some time before...
...plants. "In view of the industry's [booming] earnings," retorted Weir, "we felt the men should share the improvement." A few weeks later he helped sabotage U.S. Steel's plan to hike prices; he publicly supported a pending wartime price freeze, then marched out of the American Iron and Steel Institute...
...Great Career Girl. Mrs Ayer was no less a Victorian than Mrs. Gladstone and (like all the best Victorians) no less unorthodox, but she was more spectacular about it. She spent 150,000 of husband Bert Ayer's iron and steel dollars on her Chicago household expenses each year. She read highbrow magazines and struggled to get Bert to like her French dishes (the French novels were beyond him). Alas, he threw her magazines in the fire and, instead of eating, drank. Harriet, "bird of gorgeous plumage strayed into a hen yard," might have had a long, drawn...