Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Rescue Committee, having completed a two-month study in Western Europe, reported that 1,158 refugees went back to their Red homelands in the 13 months ending Jan. 31, 1956. During the same period about 6,000 non-German Europeans fled Communism by slipping through the Iron Curtain to the West. Among the reasons for redefection, according to IRC: Communist propaganda appeals and threats of reprisal against the refugees' families; the refugees' own nostalgia for their homelands, and failure to make a living in the West. Concluded General William Donovan, wartime chief of the Office of Strategic...
Gains & Losses. The committee discovered that many of the state's industries, such as iron ore mining and processing, the economic backbone of northern Minnesota, now have little or no tariff protection. Others, like the thriving apparel industry, specialize in products geared to ever-changing demands on the part of the U.S. consumer; because of their greater familiarity with the market, U.S. firms would continue to have an advantage over foreign competitors. All in all, tariff reduction would make little direct difference to 52 Minnesota industries employing 66% of the state's mining and manufacturing workers...
...Iron Curtain. In many another quarter, however, Georgy was doing fine. Time and again he had his picture taken grinning from ear to ear amid a sea of female workers. At an official dinner one night, he commandeered one of the entertainers, pretty, blonde Xylophonist Pauline Joy, and invited her to sit beside him. As Malenkov beamed and flashbulbs popped, Pauline in her tights banged out a selection of Russian folk tunes. After a couple of encores, the courtly Malenkov sent a waiter out to buy her "a large box of chocolates...
...electrical plant in Staffordshire, two impulsive canteen waitresses pinned the visiting Russian and planted moist, ruby-red busses on his cheeks. A moment later, in high good humor, Georgy stepped into a freight elevator, watched the steel door clank shut and cracked: "Ah ha, I see you have an Iron Curtain here. We've discarded it in Russia...
...Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. As he watched the strongman's methods, his fear and anger grew. By 1946 he was deep in anti-Trujillo underground activity and New York friends got him a visa to come to the U.S. By then a fascination with Trujillo's iron personality and Trujillo's absolute rule had become the ruling passion of Galindez' life...