Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before, Foreign Operations Administrator Harold Stassen announced he would push for increased East-West trade as one way of puncturing the Iron Curtain with democratic ideas. Stassen said, "From its newly attained position of strength, the West can use economic forces to play a major part in lessening the East-West tension...
...jungle station in French Equatorial Africa last week, Albert Schweitzer reached his 79th birthday. Early in the morning, outside his single iron-roofed room, the doctors, nurses and native helpers of his hospital at Lambaréné gathered to sing hymns, then came in to offer their good wishes and presents. At the birthday breakfast, the dining-room table was gay with sprays of leek and fennel, a clump of eggplants, a few cabbage leaves-for Doctor Schweitzer does not approve of cutting flowers, or killing anything that is not needed for food. Later in the day, the patients...
Czechoslovakia, the last remaining Iron Curtain nation in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has been suspended for not paying the $625,-000 balance of its capital subscription when due. Czechs have one year to pay up or be dropped permanently...
...every schoolboy knows, the important raw materials of industry are coal, oil and iron. But, as every businessman knows, the most important raw material of all is the schoolboy who, as a trained college graduate, will run the U.S. industry of the future. Today, U.S. industry is faced with a tight shrinkage of such manpower; it needs not only more but better trained college graduates...
...from the wings he calls a cast that looks as if it had been waiting there since Wycherley's last play folded. "My dear Lady Dodds" (Martita Hunt), a magnificent, antique iron doe, is followed on stage by Dr. McAdam (Miles Malleson), a lovable, bumbling country practitioner. The local "artist" (Roland Culver) is also there, and the artist's wife (Elizabeth Allan). The wife's lover (Colin Gordon), a big doublethink expert on the BBC, and the local Labor M.P. (Edward Chapman) complete the ambitious chaplain's board of experts...