Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President also: ¶Turned the newly signed surplus commodities bill into a cold-war weapon by offering $4,000,000 worth of surplus foodstuffs to middle Europe flood victims on both sides of the Iron Curtain. East Germany called the offer "infamous...
...forsook her laboratory and fled to the Chinese Communists. For a while she made four-wheeled carts in an iron factory in the mountains of Shensi; soon she was attending a Communist "peace conference" that charged the U.S. with germ warfare. In a letter published in People's China, she wrote: "The Chinese with their bare hands are building up a new nation; while the Americans . . . are preparing to destroy mankind...
...Kremlin's attempt to split the Anglo-Americans. Other notable head-table guests: the ambassadors of India and Indonesia. The theme was "peaceful coexistence." As toast followed vodka toast, Khrushchev became conspicuously animated. Agriculture and party machinery are his specialties: he has never been outside the Iron Curtain in his life. But now he was full of foreign affairs. He proposed a toast to the Geneva settlement. He waxed confidential to the British ambassador: "I'm the Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, but in this question of coexistence. Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain is in complete...
...Iron-Cold Iron-is master of them...
...mining firms. The visitors assembled on Seven Islands' rain-drenched waterfront. A button was pushed, and rumbling machinery dumped carloads of red rock into a freighter's hold. When the hold was full, the ship sailed for Philadelphia to deliver to U.S. steel mills the first iron ore from Canada's remote Ungava iron fields, as rich as and perhaps vaster than the once great Mesabi Range...