Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the rimes of war, trading with the enemy is one of the most venal and despicable. And although the present cold war situation has changed this view considerably, a feeling that there is something immoral about trading through the Iron Curtain persists. For this reason, Washington observers last week met with indignation the news that British businessmen were favorably considering negotiations for a billion dollars in Soviet trade...
...with all the tools and tricks of the trade he works so well. To despairing France he hinted broadly that a conference with Red China might produce an end to the blood drain of Indo-China. For straitened Britain he depicted a landscape fruity with profitable trade behind the Iron Curtain. "Only a few countries," said he, with a glance at Dulles, "don't want to trade with Russia and China. Most...
...sharply worded statement calling Guatemala's charges "ridiculous and untrue." But State also offered a coolly reasoned explanation of why the white paper had been published at this time. Pointing out that the charge "is perhaps connected . . . with the return from visits to the Soviet Union and Iron Curtain countries of Guatemalan Communists Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Jose Manuel Fortuny," State said: "The United States views the issuance of this false accusation immediately prior to the Tenth Inter-American Conference as a Communist effort to disrupt the work of this conference." In other words, the real plot...
RICH new ore deposits have been found by the Union Pacific Railroad, 25 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyo. Proven reserves are at least 50 million tons of iron, 12 million tons of titanium, and possibly 2 million tons of vanadium, used for strengthening steel. U.P., which owns or controls 60% of the claims, will run in a spur line to the deposits...
...world. A constant exchange of specimens and inter-library leans take place between Peabody and organizations abroad. In particular, the Museum library, with well over 60,000 items, conducts a widespread exchange of research material with other museums and university departments of anthropology--Peabody publications even breach the Iron Curtain...