Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because he was paralyzed, but he told the nurse who held them what he wanted to play. He saw the cards only by reflection in the mirror over his face. For 18 years and seven months, since he was stricken with polio, Fred Snite had been bound to an iron lung...
...Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton, who operates 27 hotels in three nations and will soon open one in Istanbul, only a few miles from the Iron Curtain: U.S. businessmen should take a "calculated risk" and start trading with Iron Curtain nations. "The circulation of food to the hungry of the captive nations would be more effective than H-bombs in the destruction of Communism...
...trade is coming anyway, says Randall, "and there is little we can do about it unless we risk the whole temper of our international relationships by strict attempts to interfere . . . The experience of mankind leads one to think that trade makes for peace. The more points at which the Iron Curtain can be penetrated and the more individuals there are who cross it to deal with individuals on the other side, the more chances there would seem to be of ultimate mutual understanding...
...Goodyear's new plant superintendent, he was just out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first real scientist on the young company's staff. He also had a penchant both for production and for trying unexplored fields. In those days U.S. tiremakers produced solid, iron-hard rings of rubber. Litchfield soon learned a better way. In 1902 he took Goodyear's tires to a reliability test in the British Isles, paying his own way across on a cattle boat. "We finished last," recalls...
...such project, he will try to initiate negotiations with Radio for Europe to provide a series of programs on America Education beamed to countries behind the Iron Curtain. Bicks also expects to publish fact sheets similar to these distributed last year on segregation by the N.S.A. Such sheets would deal with topics like "The Economic Status of the American Student...