Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through Les Halles' twelve iron-and-glass pavilions move every fish, vegetable and piece of meat that Paris consumes. "The belly of Paris," Emile Zola called it. Under the glaring light of bare electric bulbs, husky men in blue overalls and leather aprons unload crates of cabbages from Burgundy, baskets of fish from Brittany, beef carcasses from Normandy...
...plans to use contributions the Cambridge group collects to send over American students, and the $6 collected at the lecture will go for further advertising, Mrs. Gaynor said. At this point she added that interested students would have to pay their own way over, but travel within the Iron Curtain countries would be free...
...free polio victims from dependence on the confining iron lung, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Frederick H. Van Bergen offers a respirator which breathes for the patient through a tube slipped into an incision in his windpipe. The size of a TV set, the gadget is easily wheeled around, plugs into ordinary house current, or if the power fails, can be cranked by hand-some patients can do it themselves...
...Russia and satellites next year. Exporters will no longer need individual licenses for each shipment, but will still be limited to nonstrategic goods, e.g., tallow, hides and tobacco. U.S. exports to Russia will remain a trickle ($6,000,000 a year v. $45 million in. Soviet imports) unless the Iron Curtain; countries decide to buy American farm food surpluses or step up purchases of farm and textile machinery...
Montmartre with a serenity that belied the circumstances of his life. In 1935 he married buxom Lucie Pauwels, who put water in his wine, dropped an iron curtain about him, appointed herself the caretaker and sole distributor of his flagging...