Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over this vast expanse of the world, from the Elbe River to the China Sea, the workers are not to be allowed to think for themselves. Books which might cause them to think will not even be printed. The curtain of ignorance is thicker and more dangerous than the Iron Curtain...
...Guillermo Palmieri. tourist bureau chief under Arbenz, said last week that the money was used to make the last payment on the celebrated shipment of Iron Curtain arms that Arbenz imported from Poland...
...refugees from Brazil got a cold reception at the hands of New Amsterdam's peg-legged Governor Peter Stuyvesant. a cast-iron Calvinist who considered Judaism "an abominable religion." He wrote to the directors of the West India Company in Amsterdam, suggesting that Jews be banned. The company instructed the governor to let the Jews stay on the understanding that "the poor among them shall not become a burden to the Company or community, but be supported by their own nation...
CYRUS EATON is negotiating with Krupp and Germany's other big steel producers to supply them with iron ore from his enormous Ungava Bay deposits near Quebec's northern coast. German technicians have already surveyed the site, are considering supplying mining equipment and building docks at a deep-water harbor less than 20 miles from...
...Atomic Deposits. For those who want to protect documents and other valuables from atom bombs, the Railway Express Agency has set up a service to seal them in bombproof, ventilated concrete vaults deep inside Iron Mountain, near Hudson, N.Y. Customers pack their possessions in cylindrical metal containers three inches in diameter, one foot long. Rental: $10 the first year, $5 thereafter...