Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris by swift truck and chartered plane go 65,000 copies daily-80,000 when the tourists swarm. In the last five years as tourism has grown, the Trib has boosted subscriptions 90% and newsstand sales 34%, is so much a European fixture that it appears regularly behind the Iron Curtain, on Polish and Yugoslavian kiosks. It charges almost the same ad rates as Paris' Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), yet steamship companies and resorts are eager to do business with the Trib...
...against his own ennui. Save for a glorious hour at the outbreak of the first World War, when Bennett resolutely published under the German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades played the role of society paper for expatriates, subject to Bennett's iron whim (without giving a reason, he ordered a letter from an "old Philadelphia lady," inquiring how to convert centigrade readings to Fahrenheit,* reprinted daily for 18 years...
...cartel. Under the cartel, which Erhard also admitted was one of his little sins, major oil companies last December were pressured by Bonn to fix prices at $22 per metric ton (about $3 per bbl.) and not to advertise. But cheaper oil flooded in from neighboring nations and Iron Curtain lands. Small, noncartel companies cut oil prices as low as $15 per ton, tripled their market share to 25%. Last week giant Esso A.G., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), alarmed because its share of the market had dropped from 35% to 25%, stomped out of the cartel...
...foreign products are plentiful, low in price and of good quality. Comparing the first halves of 1958 and 1959, U.S. imports of electrical apparatus, electronics parts and transistor radios went up from $72 million to $96 million, imports of industrial machinery from $89 million to $115 million, iron and steel products from $93 million to $229 million, cars and parts from $248 million to $424 million, oil and its products from $806 million to $842 million...
Last week, because of the beets, Aaron Gruwell was dead. So were Kenneth Nelson (after lingering more than a week, part of the time in an iron lung) and daughter Wanda, 15. Naomi Nelson, just out of an iron lung, might take months to recover fully. Martha Nelson. 4, was running around but still under observation. Grandma Gruwell, 64, was propped up in a hospital bed, apparently on the mend. Three children-Eileen, 14, Allen, 10, and Donald, 8, who had not eaten the beets-were in good health...