Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, West Germany's pfennig-pinching Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer came up last week with an audacious proposal: Germany would let the rest of the world make heavy arms; Germany would merely buy them, using its accumulated trade surpluses. With a glance at the Iron Curtain, Schaffer added piously: "We must never forget that we are a border country, and that it would be politically extremely imprudent to build up a war industry a few kilometers away from the frontier ... A wrong picture could be created beyond this frontier...
...Germans, the decision made shrewd sense militarily, economically and politically. They argue that arms are needed now, and it would take years to build an adequate arms industry. Besides, an arms industry so close to the Iron Curtain could be knocked out by a few Russian bombs, or occupied in a matter of days. Big manufacturers who would have to make the tanks and heavy guns have all the peacetime business they can use, and firms like Krupp want no part of the risk and none of the stigma of becoming munitions makers again. Furthermore, weapons are in a transitional...
...California Housewife Earlene Brown, 21, hit on the happy practice of tossing iron balls around the landscape just four months ago, got the hang of it so quickly that she took a trip to Washington, D.C. for the women's Olympic tryouts, heaved the 4-kilo (8 Ibs. 15 oz.) shot a distance of 46 ft. 9½ in. for a new American record and a place on the team. As if to make sure she would get to Melbourne, formidable Earlene (226 Ibs.) also picked up a discus, threw it in a style that recalled a comic-strip...
...Verein steelworks discovered a way to pour white-hot liquid steel into molds and cast the world's first steel bell, other foundrymen could not believe it. At the Paris Exposition of 1855 they launched an investigation, ran chemical tests, were persuaded that the bells were not cast-iron fakeries only after sledge hammers failed to crack them. Last week Bochumer Verein für Gusstahlfabrikation, A.G.,* once again amazed steelmen. Out of its mill came the largest piece of cast steel ever made-a rolling mill foundation block (housing) weighing 257 tons, 6 ft. thick, standing...
...Woman's Place. In Houston, after ordering coffee from his waitress wife at the Do-Nut Hole drive-in, Paul Anderson threw it at her, smashed his truck against the building, broke all the restaurant's windows and much of its equipment with an iron pipe, told police that he didn't want his wife working there...