Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps to be taken. Adenauer would "probably" accept his invitation to the Kremlin, but not until after the Geneva summit conference in July and not until the Russians had answered three pointed questions: 1) What does Russia propose to do about the German prisoners of war still behind the Iron Curtain? 2) What plans does Russia have for revising Germany's eastern frontier? and 3) What do the Russians intend to do about reunifying Germany...
...Technical Assistants, often using funds loaned to governments by the World Bank, are making marks in the havenots' economies. In Pakistan, the output of an iron foundry was increased 44% by a U.N. technical mission. A forgotten village in Mexico tripled its population, opened a cinema and sent seven times as many children to school within three years after the World Bank financed a small diesel power plant. U.N. experts are ubiquitous in the underdeveloped free lands-a Haitian coffee expert and an Australian lumberjack teaching their trades in Addis Ababa, a Rhodesian statistician in Libya, an Icelandic engineer...
Around the free world the economic picture was bright. While the Iron Curtain countries try to cope with falling production, shortages of food and consumer goods, Britain, Italy, France and other free nations report thriving industry, booming stock markets and rising standards of living (TIME, May 10, 1954 et seq.). Last week the most up-to-date summary of just how well the world is doing was presented in Basel, Switzerland, in the 25th annual report of the Bank for International Settlements. Said the bank's General Manager Roger Auboin: "Nineteen fifty-four has been for the world...
...intimates and few friends. Glowering John L. Lewis, the founder of the C.I.O., is one of the few labor leaders who have publicly expressed themselves on the subject of Walter Reuther. He referred to him as a "pseudo-intellectual nitwit." Labor leaders generally dislike his metallic personal qualities-the iron will, the tinny personality, the brass nerve. They distrust his power and his policies...
Like the edge of a locust swarm, the frontier of Commuterland advances, driving the farmers before it and leaving deposits of white colonial mansions and wrought-iron signs upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance, past the Levittowns and past Newyorkerland with its split-level houses and split-personality admen and Wall Streeters, lies the land of Dinner Party. It is rich farmland which no one farms, populated by Men who have Made their Mark and their families. Their wives scorn elegance in favor...