Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintains a list of things that cannot be shipped to Communist countries, either because they are in short supply west of the Iron Curtain or believed to be very useful to the Red war machine. Under the Battle Act. passed in 1951, the U.S cannot give aid to any friendly country that ships items on this list. The act gives the Administration considerable leeway in enforcement...
Ardent Desire. In Red China last week, the Laborites also visited three Russian-equipped iron and steel mills at Anshan and a coal mine at Tangshan, Manchuria. The young mine director told the Laborites that production was much higher than before the war because the workers were now the enthusiastic owners of the plant. Further research, however, disclosed that 1) the mine had been confiscated from a British company, and the Laborites were now inspecting stolen property; 2) the British had had almost as high a production rate as the Communists now claim. Nye Bevan went down the mine...
...half-buried, 2,500-year-old city of Paestum. Paestum was founded by Greek traders around 600 B.C. and first named Posidonia, in honor of the sea god Poseidon. Across its bustling wharves merchants bought and sold the products of the civilized world: decorated vases from Sicily, bronze and iron weapons from Sardinia, colored glass from North Africa, cloth from Egypt and Greece. The city's middlemen grew wealthy, built a 310-acre city of 100.000 inhabitants, surrounded it with a wall three miles long, and in leisure moments cultivated a famed species of rose which bloomed twice...
Honeyed Goddess. Last month Digger Sestieri hit real pay dirt. His workers broke into Paestum's "sacred precinct," surrounded by a wall of massive square boulders. Inside they found a small, hut-shaped temple. The interior walls were of stucco; on the floor were a rust-corroded iron bedstead and a set of ornate, gilded bronze water jars. Each jar, decorated with figures of female heads, sphinxes, rams and serpents, was filled with an amber-colored, resinlike substance: solidified honey. Presumably distilled from the nectar of Paestum's famed roses, the 2,500-year-old honey...
...dark, a bullet entered the residence of Henry Potter, South H Street ... It passed through a north window of the kitchen, showering bits of glass upon a paper which Mr. Potter was reading and into the hair of a child he was holding on his lap, then struck an iron pot standing on the stove at which Mrs. Potter was cooking, when it fell flattened into a pan in which a beefsteak was being cooked . . . Where the bullet came from was a mystery, and the Potter family hope that no one is angry at them...