Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experiences certainly shows that there are a few rust spots in the Iron Curtain...
...Hawaii, the iron-fisted embargo that Harry Bridges' C.I.O. longshoremen had clamped around Honolulu's reef-ringed harbor last May (TIME, July 4) was beginning to rust through in several places. The trickle of cargo that had begun when the territorial government seized the docks seven weeks ago was growing to a stream. Freighters arrived and unloaded autos, Christmas tinsel, cattle feed, canned soup and nylons, left the same day with their holds crammed with bagged raw sugar and cases of pineapple. But when the pineapple-laden freighters hit the U.S. West Coast, their "hot" cargoes found...
After several test dips and three days' delay because of rough water, Barton clambered through the 15-inch porthole in the rust-streaked white ball, and made the plunge for the record. He was in constant telephone communication with his surface crew. His comments, amplified topside by loudspeakers...
...smaller than the Government's June estimates. Said one surprised Kansas farmer: "I've got the finest 40-bushel straw and the poorest 10-bushel wheat you ever saw." Reasons for the dwindling crop: long, unseasonal rains, in some cases hail, and plant diseases like stem rust and glume blotch...
Pete Lawson's great work as second line center was so superior to his previous work that wingmen Morgan Hatch and Ned Harris were able to score two goals. The first line also shock off their rust and during the last half of the game kept the puck between themselves in the attack zone...