Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will get into unfriendly hands. The justification for accepting such risks lies in confidence in the potentialities of American industry. It rests on the belief that the information which must be declassified will produce greater advances by American industry than the increased "leakage" of information will produce behind the Iron Curtain. I submit that this belief is justified by the past performance of American industry...
...manager of a Brazilian flour mill caught a glint of metal, plucked out the hammer-and-sickle button of a Russian army uniform. How the button got mixed with the grain, no one knew, but it provided a brassy accent for a plain fact: Latin American trade with Iron Curtain countries is rising. Items...
...sizable deal with the Reds, signed up with some visiting East German drummers to barter $10 million in coffee and tobacco for light machinery. Said Pedro Bernal, manager of the Coffee Exporters' Association: "Now let's see whether we can open markets for coffee in the real Iron Curtain countries...
...mixture of lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide, first made in 1824 by an English mason, Joseph Aspdin. The greyish color of the compound, cooked in a kiln, reminded him of stone quarried from the Isle of Portland off the British coast...
...they recognize its weakness. Rather than correcting the present uneven distribution, however, the new system does little more than drop the 70 percent ruling. The Masters have recognized even before their plan starts that it is bound to fail, and have accordingly provided for a committee of deans to iron out differences among Housemasters and make the final decision on freshman assignment...