Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the room Augsburg's citizens, many of whom still have relatives and friends in East Germany, stream up to the stamp windows. And with a realism born of ten years' experience, they purchase not the refugee stamp--which pictures men and women fleeing west from the Iron Curtain--but the standard one portraying the cherubic face of Federal President Theodore Heuss...
Inland's expansion, like the others, is intended to meet not only present but future needs. Among Inland's projects: a seven-year exploitation, started in 1953, to expand iron-ore mining at Financier Cyrus Eaton's Steep Rock development in Ontario (TIME, March 9, 1953), from which Inland hopes to get 3,000,000 tons a year by 1969; a 19-story, stainless-steel office building, one of the few new skyscrapers in Chicago since the Depression; a land-filling project near Inland's Indiana Harbor plant on Lake Michigan's south shore...
...come to Tokyo primarily to do business but to step up their propaganda campaign for removal of the U.N. and NATO embargoes on trade with Red China and to drive home Peking's pitch that the only way Japan can tap China's coal and iron is to trade strategic items, now banned under the embargoes, rather than consumer goods. Fair officials told would-be buyers that orders could not be taken, politely parried inquiries on prices, deliveries and quantities available. One reason was plain: few of the items on display were in production. The fair catalogue described...
...contempt of Congress trial of Leon J. Kamin '48 will resume this morning to iron out several items of unfinished business...
Harvard itself has contributed to what may prove the most significant achievement of the Geneva Spirit: the development of contacts between East and West. With the Iron Curtain drawn slightly, two Faculty members took the opportunity last summer to travel and study in the Soviet Union, while a third, who is in Russia now, has recently arranged for the exchange of millions of books between that country and the United States...