Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before their entry into China, to be courteous and cooperative . . . The reason ... is quite obvious when it is remembered that we had only 250 U.S. personnel working among 400 million Chinese, and were opposed by more than 1,000 airplanes of the Imperial Japanese Air Force, the socalled Iron Birds of Japan. Of course, the Chinese name, Flying Tigers, was very pleasing to me, since I had been an undergraduate at the old "War Skule" whose students were usually referred to as the "Bayou Tigers." . . . The insignia of the A.V.G., designed by Walt Disney, was a winged tiger springing from...
Fleet, who had trained Greek and Korean troops, to come to Indo-China. Last winter, before the U.S. could dispatch Lieut. General John W. ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel to Indo-China as military adviser, the French broadly hinted that he be reduced to major general so that he would not outrank the French principals...
...Iraq, to bid on a dam project; Italy, to check on a tunnel through the Italian Alps. Many of Morrison's other jobs are in primitive, undeveloped countries, where MK's giant power shovels and 18-ton bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused roses to grow in deserts, electric power and wealth to flow from forbidding mountain streams, new skills to enrich poverty-stricken natives. In all his endeavors, Harry Morrison does not forget that...
...vacation job as water boy for the Chicago construction firm of Bates & Rogers. Five years later, after two years of high school and a business-school course, he went to work full-time for Bates & Rogers in Idaho, building a dam and powerhouse on the Snake River. Iron-grey already streaked his sandy hair, but he hustled so hard that other men called him "that damned...
...Vacuum Refining Co.; the Ralph M. Parsons Co. of Los Angeles has five projects abuilding in Japan, three in India, three more in Turkey and Iran, others in Sweden, England, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and Colombia. San Francisco's Bechtel Corp. has been in Venezuela building the Cerro Bolivar iron-ore development (TIME, June 1) for U.S. Steel, is now on the other side of the world building a 100,000-bbl.-a-day oil refinery in Aden for the Anglo-Iranian...