Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The flics-recalling fatal rightist riots on the same spot in 1934-laid about blindly with their iron-buttoned capes and arrested a handful of battered demonstrators. Other hotheads besieged Communist headquarters, burned...
...transport to Russia of $100 million worth of factory equipment and raw materials. They had swathed Vienna in red flags (mostly Nazi flags with swastikas removed), were feeding the Viennese less than 1,000 calories a day, flooding the country with worthless occupation marks, and were rapidly gaining an iron grip on Austrian economy...
Clark quickly learned how to use the Russians' obvious weaknesses. When they seized the Zistersdorf oilfields, he innocently inquired during a Council session: "Supposing we consider pig iron. Do you need any?" The interpreter snapped back: "Marshal Konev wishes General Clark to know that the Soviet Union does not need pig iron from anyone." Replied Clark quietly: "All right then, let's take the case of oil." The Russians, who never admit publicly that the Red Army needs oil, agreed to let almost the entire Zistersdorf output go to cover Austria's own needs...
...Enriched white bread is a better source of iron than whole wheat; the phytic acid in the whole grain makes much of its iron indigestible...
...thanks to a big boost when Ford gets back into production. But no one was even guessing when automakers would reach their 1941 figure of 130,000 units a week. Packard's George Christopher solemnly warned that the CPA order on steel (and another priority system upcoming on iron castings and pig iron) may cut all car production again to a dribble. And the industry was still plagued by suppliers' strikes. Item: General Motors last week had 104 of them...