Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empire. Henry Ford did it. He was the genius of mass production. He created social problems which the U.S. is still trying to solve. For himself he built an industrial empire of coal mines, rubber plantations, iron mines, timberland, sawmills, hydroelectric works, companies in a dozen other nations. The empire's capital was the plant on the River Rouge where the stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated Henry Ford ruled the roost. At one time it was estimated that he was worth $2 billion. The bankers tried to horn in on the empire, but he repulsed them. He had a low opinion...
...Mallee's railroad sidings the mice scratched at the iron sides of wheat bins. The noise was like the splatter of freshly tarred gravel on a thousand auto fenders. Telephones crackled and spluttered as the hungry hordes chewed at the insulation on the wires. For the cats of Mallee it was the chance of a lifetime. But the mousers were sated. With mice by the millions in the fields and roads, the cats merely brushed the mice out of their paths...
...Tiki has a bamboo deck and a small bamboo cabin. Two masts support a primitive square sail. Modern conveniences are iron rations, U.S. Army sun-cream, anti-exposure suits. A radio will send daily weather reports to the U.S. Weather Bureau...
...apparatus was simple: a galvanized iron washtub with a strong light above it, and a loud electric bell hung inside its rim. Dr. Hall put his mice in the tub in small groups, and watched them for two minutes. The brown mice were slightly more nervous than the black, but also bolder: they ventured more frequently into the middle...
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were forced, at the point of Red Army guns, to join the Soviet Union in 1940. Ever since then, Russia's westward window on the Baltic Sea has been tightly shuttered.* Said one Lithuanian recently: "We don't speak of the Iron Curtain, as that is not a strong enough expression. Our country lies behind the Steel Curtain." From refugees' reports, letters, rumors and official Soviet decrees, a picture of life behind the Steel Curtain can be pieced together...