Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took conferees only 90 minutes to agree on making the tax cut effective July 1 (instead of retroactive to Jan. 1 as approved by the House), and to iron out minor details in the tax-reduction brackets...
differences, that perhaps the Soviet Government can be induced to raise the Iron...
Coincident with the Princeton football game was the threat of a general rail road strike. To keep the iron wheels rolling in this eventauality over 500 students in the University signed up as volunteer trainsmen in the emergency...
...Industrial Charter opposed Socialist nationalization in principle, but was cagily diffident when it came down to cases. It agreed that coal and the Bank of England should remain nationalized; only on iron and steel was it flatly opposed to Government ownership. On controls, the main Tory target for many months, it was surprisingly cautious: "Some controls will have to be continued until abundance overtakes scarcity...
...everyone knows, said Blackett, the earth has a magnetic field, but no one has figured out why. The magnetism does not come from iron deep underground, because the earth's core is far too hot to be "ferro-magnetic." As early as 1891, physicists guessed that the magnetism might be due to some inherent property of revolving bodies. They could not prove...