Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys!" mourned Candido next day as he lay safe at home in his iron bed, surrounded by grandchildren. "My boys! They should have let me go down...
...Cast-Iron Secrecy. By using China, once the Mau Mau's No. 2 commander, to call on the guerrillas to surrender, the British were hoping to win with words what 6,000 regulars and 24,000 police had failed to win by war. In a letter written from his cell, China had suggested to the authorities that Mau Mau morale is wilting, that many of its "generals" could be persuaded to lay down their arms. A squad of British officers grilled the condemned man for 68 hours and concluded that he was probably speaking the truth. In cast-iron...
Last week they told about a new alloy, Thermenol, which is made of cheap, plentiful materials (iron, aluminum and a little molybdenum). It resists heat and corrosion better than some kinds of expensive stainless steel, and it is 20 to 25% lighter. Lufcy believes that it may eventually become as common as ordinary iron...
FRANCE, which last year signed its first commercial treaty with Russia since 1934 (TIME, Nov. 2), is feeling some of the headaches that go with Communist trade. In the first months of the pact, France shipped $6,300,000 worth of goods (mainly textiles, fruit, and iron and steel products) more than it received. Soviet shipments, notably of corn, are lagging, and its oil is of such poor quality that French refineries cannot turn it into gasoline at competitive prices without a government subsidy...
...cotton farmer, who quit the Katherine Dunham troupe to try for the big money, is neatly made, has a cobra-cold allure, sings well in both French and English, and dances with the unerring grace of a cat. More to the point, she makes the spectator feel like an iron filing when the magnet passes...