Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron Bob. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Australia's 53 years of responsible self-government. Menzies, an able politician with a handsome, Warren G. Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...
...other products subject to roller-coaster price swings were busy setting up futures markets of their own. In Florida citrus men laid plans for a futures market in booming citrus concentrates, whose prices fluctuate as much as 60% in a season. In Chicago a futures market in scrap iron and steel will open late this summer at the huge Mercantile Exchange, where $1.3 billion worth of farm products are now sold each year. Eventually, metalmen hope to trade up to 24,000 tons of scrap iron and steel...
...addition he toured the U.S., writing and making, peeches as an "industrial consultant." The Senate's La Follette Committee on Civil Liberties reported in 1938 that for his speaking engagements and other work he was paid nearly $40,000, through a publicity firm, by the N.A.M. and the Iron and Steel Institute...
...past few months Murchison and Richardson have hit the nation's front pages by trying to help their fellow Texan, Robert R. Young, catch an iron horse-the $2.7 billion New York Central Railroad. The Central deal started with a long-distance phone call last March. Young, an ambitious dreamer who has exchanged Texas roughness for Newport's semi-suavity, had run into trouble in his campaign to win the Central. From Palm Beach, he called Murchison and said, "I need some help." Murchison called Richardson in California and said, "I need some help." Richardson took the call...
...IRON CURTAIN countries, turned down once as an outlet for U.S. farm surpluses, may get them under a new proposal. The Agriculture Department is pushing a plan to sell Government stocks to private exporters, permit them to sell to Communist countries for dollars, or even better, for strategic materials...