Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curtice (in the current Look): "I no longer see any reason why sales of cars and other peacetime products to the Soviet bloc cannot be increased as long as such sales fit in with U.S. State Department policies." Said Meany: "Doesn't Mr. Curtice realize that to the Iron Curtain rulers, to the Communist warlords, foreign trade is not so much an economic undertaking, as we know it in the free world, but rather a political weapon to be used against...
...wants peace and more stable international relations," Meany snorted. "In my opinion," he said, "Mr. Weir would be serving America better if he renounced his attitude of suspicion and distrust of collective bargaining in our own country before he showered his trust on Khrushchev and his comrades behind the Iron Curtain." Somewhat to Meany's surprise-and probably to theirs too-applause broke from the 500 Rotarians...
Actually each successive Five-Year Plan (piatiletka) is a set of production targets which the state planners then exhort the Russian people to attain by superhuman effort. The sixth piatiletka (1956-60) is more than usually superhuman: in the next five years heavy industry must be up 70%, pig iron up 70%, steel up 51%, coal up 49%, oil up 100%, building up 52%, consumer goods up 60%; in agriculture grain production must increase 80%, while labor efficiency on state farms must rise 70%, on collectives 100%. Incentives are a calculated feature of piatiletki: 55 million workers will...
...made him famous in the back streets and industrial areas of Buffalo, where he took a job as a wallpaper designer, worked on art in his spare hours. By the time he decided to devote himself full time to his art, his realistic scenes of grim train yards, black iron drawbridges, rows of workers' unpainted houses had put him in the forefront of the American Scene painters of the 1930s. But as one critic quipped, Burchfield, with his prevailing gloomy mood (see cut above), seemed too often like Painter Edward Hopper on a rainy...
...later reorganized its labor policy to weather the social tides of the New Deal. In 1927-29 Taylor paid off $340 million on the company's bonded indebtedness so that when the crash came the company was financially secure. In 1937 he broke with the antilabor, coal-and-iron police tradition of Founder Elbert Gary, became the first steelmaker to sign with John L. Lewis' C.I.O. According to legend, the crack in the ranks of steel came one day in Washington's Mayflower Hotel lobby, when handsome Mrs. Taylor spied Lewis' leonine head, bade her reluctant...