Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also vaguely said that Russia might lift the Iron Curtain to Western traders and tourists "to facilitate the creation of an atmosphere of trust...
...editorial [from the Richmond News Leader) sounds more like something out of the Daily Worker . . . It appears that instead of wasting our time trying to educate the peoples of Iron Curtain Europe we should begin at home behind our own Iron Curtain, sometimes known as the Mason-Dixon line...
Industry has also gone to work in other ways. Twenty-four industry task forces have been formed, and the rubber, chemical and iron and steel industries have each produced thick, detailed manuals on what to do if bombs drop. Typical topics: how to set up management succession lists in case the top echelon is wiped out; the collecting and storing of vital records in a safe place; arranging for alternate officers to sign emergency payrolls...
...seven years since Washington put a ban on the sale of war-useful materials to Iron Curtain countries, there has been many an attempt to evade the embargo, chiefly by foreign firms. Last week Washington revealed the first case involving a major U.S. firm: the Commerce Department had caught Willys-Overland Export Corp. in a deal that landed 100 of its jeeps behind the Iron Curtain...
...began two years ago when the trading firm of Les Fils de Basile Obegi of Syria placed an order with a New York export house for 100 four-wheel-drive jeeps (which cannot legally be exported to Iron Curtain countries). The jeeps' purported destination was Beirut, where a merchant named Jean Maghamez supposedly wanted them for local farmers. Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Toledo cabled its Syrian dealer, Levant Motors, to investigate the $150,000 order. Levant Motors discovered that Consignee Ma-ghamez was just a front man, and replied that it suspected Les Fils de Basile Obegi...