Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Berlin Freedom Bell, donated by Americans as a tribute to Berlin's fight against Communist encroachment, pealed forth in somber tones across the snow-covered city that now was doomed to more years of division. The bell tolled for heavy hearts on both sides of the Iron Curtain...
Professors Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard and Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin announced last week that they had found the oldest fossils so far. In a layer of flint beneath an iron ore deposit in Ontario, they identified two kinds of algae, two of fungi and an organism that they believe may be a calcareous (containing calcium) flagellate. None of them are striking in appearance; they are much like primitive organisms that are still living...
Scramble for Business. Western Europe's current economic problem is not supply, but demand. Surpluses are piling up. Western salesmen are scrambling for export markets, and, not finding them in the U.S., are looking to Moscow-and the 800 million potential customers penned behind the Iron Curtain. "Our 1954 motto," cooed the chairman of the Soviet Chamber of Commerce in a foreign broadcast last week, "is 'Welcome' . . . to foreign traders." The traders who march on Moscow find bureaucrats with whom they must do business hard and evasive bargainers. After three months' canvassing, the spokesman for twelve...
...Waiting. It is one of the facts of international economics that Soviet purchases invariably run ahead of Soviet deliveries. Sweden recently gave up shipping iron ore to satellite Czechoslovakia because Prague would not pay up. France found that Soviet buyers exhausted their $34,000,000 credit for 1953-54 before the first six months were up; a Greek government spokesman called the new Greek-Soviet agreements "very disappointing" because the Soviet Union "in most cases, made no deliveries...
...specific forms a limited protection should take, the general advantages of free trade within the Western bloc are clear. The United States has grown strong and prosperous as the largest free-trading area in the world. By extending the limits of this area as far as the Iron Curtain will permit, the free West can make itself a broad self-sustaining economic unit...