Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest Business. Slaves and slave camps are the private property of the MVD, and their productivity has made the Soviet secret police the world's biggest business. Slaves build electric power dams, factories, canals, railroads. They mine coal, iron, gold. By Dallin's estimate, they represent at least one out of every four Soviet workers. Since they can be regimented without appeal, worked to death without mercy and paid little or nothing, they are the Soviet Government's most profitable labor...
...formal complaint was aimed at the 26 major steel companies and the American Iron & Steel Institute, gave them until Sept. 19 to answer. In prospect was a "cease-and-desist" order by FTC to break up the industry's "basing point" system...
Counterpoint. Walter S. Tower, slight, sandy-haired president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, was left officially speechless by FTC's assault, declined all comment. His spokesman, however, predicted that most steel customers would rally to the industry's defense because the multiple basing point system, they say, saves them money...
...three months to their highest level in 30 years, showed a sign of receding. In the key Pittsburgh area, the price of heavy melting scrap in one large sale dropped $2 a ton, down to $40. The widespread prospects of further drops from recent "fantastic" highs, said the weekly Iron Age, "gives steel producers hope that present steel price levels can be maintained...
...best part of the Memoir is a critical account of the comfortable Quaker society of Wilmington, Del., where young Canby grew up at the end of the century. He describes this setting nostalgically-the leafy interpenetration of country and town, the sense of neighborhoods, the wide lawns, iron stags and idiosyncratic architecture. As for the way people lived, he says: "I believe that there were values in that period called the nineties and scandalously misdescribed in current films and novels, which were as worthy (greatness aside) as any cultural period has ever developed, and which are now lost, perhaps irrevocably...