Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incredibly big function," Winter passionately argues. "We can no longer perceive our world purely optically. Matter itself disintegrates into ever smaller particles. Atoms are smashed, time and space eliminated as barriers. The world has become transparent; we look through trees and know that a piece of iron is in hectic movement. I must, therefore, try with color and form to give expression to this world, my world, just as Renaissance painters did to theirs...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS on 21 types of defense projects will be reinstated by the Office of Defense Mobilization. Among the expansion goals reinstated: airport facilities, iron ore, diesel locomotives, truck terminals, railroad passenger cars, petroleum pipelines...
...Friday, May 25, 1951, two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, took the 11:45 p.m. boat from Southampton to St. Malo, France, and disappeared in the direction of the Iron Curtain. Last fall Her Majesty's Stationery Office issued the official story of their defection (TIME, Oct. 3). The report's half-truth was accepted as a polite fiction. Now Novelist Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley) seems to offer some fiction as the impolite truth...
...shorter than the other, and he had trouble holding his own against speedball bowlers. Last week, on his doctors' advice, Len Hutton retired-and all England mourned. There is no one in sight to take his place, among either gentlemen or players. "His defense was an iron curtain," wrote the Times; "his cover drive was the game's most classic stroke; the way he touched the peak of his cap between each ball was cricket's most famous mannerism...
Said one Pennsylvania steelman: "Our other customers say that if we get any cutbacks from Detroit, ship the steel to them, for they're hungry." Said another: "We could sell twice as much steel as we're making." To make sure there is enough, American Iron & Steel Institute President Ben Fairless announced that the industry will spend $3 billion to increase output by 5,000,000 tons yearly for each of the next three years...