Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tasks of the time that brought forth the inner-directed man were those of production, a hard struggle with hard things: iron, coal, prairies, machinery. Invention, toil, risk-taking and a driving sense of the goal to be won were necessary to meet the mounting consumer demands of rapidly increasing populations passing from static to more fluid forms of society...
...purpose of these [U.S.] flights near the Iron Curtain is not provocation but security. For eight years, and particularly since the start of the Korean War in 1950, United States Air Force and naval planes have skirted the borders of the Soviet Union and in a few cases have crossed those frontiers...
...Student of the week: former North Korean Communist No Kum-Sok, 22, who won a reward of $100,000 for piloting a MIG-15 from behind the Iron Curtain showed how he intended to use the money by enrolling as a freshman at the University of Delaware...
From the wood carvings other craftsmen made cast-iron molds, and in these the copper weather vanes were hammered out. Gushing & Sons shipped them to all parts of New England to become the crowning touches on new barns, village churches and town halls. For barns, the vanes were shaped like horses, cows and oxen; for churches, there were finny pickerel and proud, plumed cocks; and for public buildings, spread-winged eagles, mythical Columbias and grasshoppers (similar to the glassy-eyed insect atop Faneuil Hall, which has been showing Bostonians which way the wind blows since...
...Gushing firm has long been out of business, but Collector Halpert knew that some of the old iron molds must still be around. She searched for ten years up and down New England, finally, last year, found a jumble of 350 Gushing molds in the yard of a Chelsea (Mass.) junkman. Last week in New York's Associated American Artists Galleries, 16 new vanes shaped from the old molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they...