Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weight would have helped -that any increase in traction would offset the increased inertia. If it had been allowed, I would have experimented with the best results, with and without the added weight. As it was, I did not hope to smuggle a 200 or 300-lb. block of iron, lying on the trunk floor, through a microscopic inspection. Aside from moral and racing considerations, this is a slur on the mentality of one who got all the way to Florida all by himself...
...Another Iron Curtain country took an obliging bite out of Canada's Worrisome wheat surplus last week. Shortly after Soviet Russia had signed a three-year contract to buy 100 million bu., Czechoslovakia placed an order for up to 11,800,000 bu. Poland had already ordered 12,950,000 bu., and Hungary was reported ready to buy some 3,000,000 bu. Prospects looked good that Canada would unload nearly 15% of her wheat surplus to Communist customers...
Teams from fifteen nations will compete in the Championships, including several from countries behind the Iron Curtain, led by the defending champions from the Soviet Union. Other nations represented will include Hungary, Rumania, East and West Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Netherlands...
...Defense Ministry in four years, attacked the government for failing either to coordinate effective research for tomorrow's war or to provide the weapons for today's. "There are no airplanes," he said, "and it is no use pretending that there are." A successful industrialist himself (iron foundries, etc.), Stokes asserted that British aircraft manufacturers "have been living on their failures." In ten years, he said, Britain has spent $2.8 billion on 166 aircraft projects, 142 of which "went into the wastepaper basket as useless." Of these 166 aircraft projects, he said, only eight proved successful...
Until the day he died in 1934, the Giants' Manager McGraw insisted that Evers had made the put-out with a phony ball. According to McGraw, his first-base coach, Old Pitcher "Iron Man" McGinnity, had grabbed the ball hit by Bridwell and heaved it into the stands. Evers, of course, told a different version, and the league decided that this time Evers was right...