Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...output edged up another point to 138% of the 1947-49 average, 9% above the recession low. With unemployment still dropping between September and October, consumers stepped up their buying in the nation's department stores by 2% over a year ago. And steel production, reported the American Iron and Steel Institute, rose to the highest level in a year, with production of about 8,816,000 tons in October v. 7,610,372 in September...
...Service, with headquarters in Harvard Square, states that its purpose is to provide American students with "comprehensive and objective data regarding the Communist-sponsored Seventh World Youth Festival." Next summer's Festival will be the first ever held outside the Iron Curtain...
...sorts of possibilities open up. Beach umbrellas could be set up for rainy days. Little wrought iron tables could be put the length of the Shelf by some enterprising individual who wants to give the Mozart and Tulla's some competition...
...This sort of educational exchange," he said, "should prove extremely valuable for opening the windows in the minds of men behind the iron curtain...
...CHURCH OF SILENCE. The church is responsible for 52,552,000 Catholics behind the Iron Curtain. Should it encourage religion there-and so increase the risk of persecution and torture-or should it do nothing and let the Communists try slowly to freeze Christianity? Or is there a possibility of compromise? Several third-hand feelers from the Soviet side were extended during the reign of Pius XII, and ignored...