Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II, German veterans have been forbidden by the Allies to wear the "ornaments of war." Last week the West German government, which soon expects to raise twelve German divisions for the defense of Western Europe, proposed that the ex-soldiers should shine up their Iron Crosses and pin them on again. But be sure to remove the tiny metal swastikas that decorate all Iron Crosses issued in World War II, said the Bonn government; Nazi emblems are still verboten...
...idea a trial in his See of Guadix, and Brothers Hilarion and Bernardo went to work. In the cemetery's dilapidated tool shed, they arranged two small cells and a tiny kitchen. All day long, they labor in the graveyard, clearing paths, repairing crumbling headstones, replacing rusty iron crosses and digging graves, an average of one a day. Each day they rise at 2 a.m. to walk in meditation through the cemetery to the tiny chapel, where they pray until...
Last week, in a momentous Chicago speech, AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray declared that the iron age of atomic energy may soon end. "The commission," said Murray, "has embarked on a program to construct a full-scale power reactor . . . We hope to have it in operation in three to four years...
...strike-hampered third quarter of 1952. Said Republic's President Charles M. White: "Without excess-profits taxes, without overtime and with our added productive capacity, Republic Steel should do as well in 1954 as in the current year." Allegheny Ludlum, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and fast-growing Colorado Fuel & Iron (TIME, Oct. 12) all scored net gains of more than...
...reputation. A second-generation Steinway was responsible for some 45 pioneering patents, some of them so revolutionary that one of his pianos caused almost riotous excitement at the Paris exposition of 1867. The Steinway's most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center of the soundboard, which then amplified them as much as it did the long bass strings. The resulting increase in strength and power made the Steinway a world standard...