Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brooklyn's joy was shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned...
...driven by Miss Mary Baggan, a dietitian at Harkness Commons, had crashed through a plate glass window on Burr's Quincy St. side two minutes before the group arrived. Only the iron railing which surrounds the window prevented the car from rolling into the hall and demolishing, among other things, the rare fish...
...open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective immediately, any person found trespassing on the premises after dark will be given one warning to halt ... If this is not heeded, he will be shot without further notice...
...competing with the U.S. product for South American markets within the next few years. Venezuela has signed a $128 million contract with Italy's Fiat Motor Car Co. to build the country's first big steel plant on the Orinoco River near the big Cerro Bolivar iron ore deposits. To be completed in late 1957, new plant will have an eventual capacity of 421,000 tons of steel annually...
Died. Shigeo Odachi, 63, iron-fisted director of the General Affairs Bureau in Japan's puppet Manchukuo government, wartime mayor of Singapore, Home Minister (1944), member of the Diet since 1953; of cancer; in Tokyo...