Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dropped its guard against strategic shipments behind the Iron Curtain still another notch. Last week Dulles took a tolerant, understanding tone toward Britain's announcement that it would send more strategic goods to Red China, added: "We do not now have to conclude that it will lead to a general breakdown" of the strategic goods...
...Italy, flew home last week for a checkup at Manhattan's Doctors Hospital. Said her physician: "Mrs. Luce is suffering from a chronic enteritis, which appears to be related to an infection of the liver which she had while abroad. She has, as well, a moderately severe iron-deficiency anemia, probably due to the same cause. She received one transfusion . . . and will require others. I have advised the ambassador not to return to her post for about two months. At that time I would anticipate complete recovery...
...February the partners fell out over the rich oilfields and 291 other industries that the Russians returned when they left Austria. The Socialists wanted to nationalize them 100% (Austria, with only one-third of its industry remaining in private hands, is perhaps the most nationalized nation outside the Iron Curtain). The People's Party proposed that new enterprises should be 51% government-owned, with the public allowed to buy shares in the other 49%. The partners agreed to take their differences to the polls...
...grade. Clay, which is everywhere, is a low-grade aluminum ore, and sulphur can be extracted from plentiful calcium sulphate (gypsum). Even ordinary rocks can be processed for their minerals. One hundred tons of an average igneous rock, e.g., granite, contain eight tons of aluminum, five tons of iron, 1,200 lbs. of titanium, 180 lbs. of manganese, 70 lbs. of chromium, etc. Dr. Brown believes that the time may come when rock is refined into 20 or 30 products. Rock reserves will last indefinitely, and only energy will be needed to exploit them...
While the U.S. was barring one of its own businessmen from trading with the Reds, British businessmen persuaded their government to open up trade with the Iron Curtain countries. The British eased a 1951 embargo on shipping the Chinese Reds rubber, tractors and electronic equipment, and approved a shipment of 150 tractors, though such exports are still banned for U.S. businessmen. Businessmen in Japan, France, Belgium and other allied nations were also pressing their governments to get U.S. approval of their big plans to sell to the Soviet and her satellites. Riled by this eagerness to trade with Communist nations...