Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tore apart the famous iron cot on which Mossadegh had reigned so long with weepy-eyed, irrational stubbornness. The rioters ripped the house to pieces, hauled the furniture into the streets and auctioned it off (a new electric refrigerator went for $36). Soon, nothing remained of 109 Kakh Street but memories of a regime which had stood Iran and the Western world on its ear for more than two years. But, even in his last hours of power, Mohammed Mossadegh cost the nation dear: 300 died that day. Dressed in silk pajamas, Mossadegh surrendered 24 hours later to General Zahedi...
...three cars came to a halt in the village of Rhöndorf, across the Rhine from Bonn. While they waited, a tall old man, whose face is a graven image, strode down the 53 steps leading from his villa to the street. The policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...
...accounts for 15% of the total industrial production of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations, and provides work for one out of every ten of their workers -had actually been brought under a single command. By so doing, the plan had: 1) established a common market for coal, iron ore, scrap and steel; 2) eliminated customs duties, quotas, currency controls and double pricing. In long-divided Europe, that in itself was a very big accomplishment...
...Iron Ore. France, which used to subsidize its own users with the low price of 850 francs a ton (while outsiders paid 1,380 francs and could get little of it), now charges one price (1,250 francs) to all. Result: production has gone up 10%, and Belgian steelmakers, for instance, can now get adequate supplies...
...executives who have tried to keep afloat under Sewell Avery's iron-fisted rule at Montgomery Ward, one at least had the name for the job: John Edward Struggles, 39, who rose to personnel vice president two years ago. But last week Struggles also gave up the struggle, became the 32nd vice president to leave Monkey Ward since Avery took over in 1931. Struggle's new job: special assistant in the Commerce Department...