Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin Allee.* Few stopped to read. Small boys careered through the streets on their bicycles. Crowds surged along the sidewalks searching for vantage points. Any minute the "Peace Race" bicycle riders would pump into view. Any lap of the 1,330-mile grind from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague, Iron Curtain counterpart of the West's lung-busting Tour de France, was guaranteed to be twice as funny as the loudest politician's patriotic spiel...
...watched Jo Ellen get sicker and paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling...
...Ellen was a patient again. Dr. Lahey and his colleague, Dr. William Schubert, started giving her both iron and copper. Jo Ellen grew back to apparent health-although she still needs five daily doses of a solution containing copper...
...results, and now doctors in California are duplicating the work. The one feature common to all the cases is that the children were fed mostly milk; though all had vitamins, some also had a few vegetables, and a few had a little meat. Just why they are deficient in iron and copper is not clear; neither is it known whether they will have to continue taking extra iron and copper rations all their lives...
...Steelworkers, who are expected to demand a big wage increase, possibly as high as 60? an hour. Even if the Steelworkers get as much as 20? an hour, the union claims that it will cost the industry only an additional $4.00 per ton. While other costs are also climbing-iron ore is up 7.4% since July, railroad freight 7%, scrap iron 83.5%-the total increase still falls well short of the $12-to-$15per-ton increase the industry wants. Thus, while costs will eat up part of any price boost, the bulk of it will go to pay for added...