Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iron Cooling . . ." Crewman Sanjiro Masuda, 29, one of the most seriously injured, told what had happened. On the morning of March i, the Fortunate Dragon rode at anchor 71 miles east of Bikini, and well outside the announced danger limits of the U.S. atomic proving grounds. Masuda and seven of his mates were pulling in the nets when the explosion went off. Said Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps...
...point, the party had to feel its way through an echoing, three-quarter-mile, bat-hung tunnel with water dripping down its collective neck. At another point, they felt their way along the face of a rock wall, stepping on a 6-in. plank held in place by ancient iron spikes. But eventually the sun came out. Robins flew up from the sycamore branches; the call of the titmouse came clearly from nearby fields. Spice bushes were in bud, and peeping frogs sang in the bog water of the old canal...
...Investigation of Communist-operated trading companies which have been doing business with Iron Curtain countries and paying a fat rake-off (estimated by Scelba at $45 to $50 million a year) to the Italian Communist treasury. Presumably the investigation will be followed by measures to stop, if not the trade, at least the rake-offs, thus depriving Palmiro Togliatti's comrades of a fat revenue source. ¶ Government seizure of property formerly owned by Mussolini's Fascists and seized by the Communists after the Allied liberation. Up to now, it has been allowed to stay in Red hands...
...return to Brit ain, but no place else. It was the first such turndown for a Communist, although people such as Britain's Fascist Oswald Mosley have also been turned down. Winnington, a Communist Party member since 1934, thus faces the choice of staying behind the Iron Curtain or going back to Britain and staying there. Though the London Worker screamed in Page One headlines that the refusal to give Winnington a passport is "a flagrant violation of the liberties of the press," other British papers did not protest. They apparently felt that no question of freedom...
...steel doughnut 135 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...