Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political logic, all arguments point to union with Germany. But both sides recognize that the Saar is the smelter for the iron mines of Lorraine in France, and cannot thrive in the German market cut off from Lorraine. Even the Saar's Germans recognize this: in the 1952 elections, they gave a surprisingly heavy majority to parties supporting continued economic linkage with France. Ideally, most look hopefully for the day when a real European community would allow them to get their iron from Lorraine while allied with Germany politically...
...central and southern Europe, relaxed its stranglehold on Yugoslav commerce. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution last November, Tito cabled Moscow his best wishes, got back Moscow's thanks. Last month the "Free Yugoslav" radio, which has been beaming anti-Tito propaganda into Yugoslavia from behind the Iron Curtain, stopped broadcasting. Early this month, the Russians and Yugoslavs signed a barter trade treaty...
...that "advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission"), and there was a pleasant nostalgia to his re-creation of Allen's Alley. The remainder of Omnibus' 90 minutes was devoted to some mildly interesting but hardly experimental films: the escape of two ballet dancers from behind the Iron Curtain and a U.S. travelogue...
...story of the picture, based on a novel, Men of Iron, by Howard Pyle, concerns a rash child (Actor Curtis) of the 14th century who doesn't know his own father. To find out who he is, the young man takes service as a squire with the kindly Earl of Mackworth (Herbert Marshall), quickly wins distinction with his arms-in the bower of milord's pretty daughter (Actress Leigh) as well as in the joust. In the end, Curtis clears his father's name, puts the crunch on the villain, gets the girl-and saves the state...
...learned his lesson well. In 1945 the former code clerk in Ottawa's Russian embassy exposed to the Canadian government a Red ring that was stealing atomic secrets. In 1948 his adventures gave Hollywood the excuse and the plot for a vivid anti-Soviet spy thriller, Iron Curtain. Last July he published a powerful novel, The Fall of a Titan, about Russian officialdom, and how one of its high-ups got cut down. Operation Manhunt, a sort of sequel to Iron Curtain, is still another piece of pretty effective anti-Communist propaganda inspired by eager Igor...