Word: ironically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week's end close to 300,000 workers outside the 500,000 in the steel industry nad been squeezed out of their jobs. Foreign competition was invading long-nurtured U.S. markets. The trade magazine Iron Age predicted that, even with settlement, the U.S. would still be feeling the steel shortages into next summer...
...year of awakening for the West, a year when the United States and its allies finally realized that the war with the Axis powers had been succeeded almost immediately by a more subtle struggle with Soviet Russia. Signs of this awakerning included Winston Churchill's phrase "the Iron Curtain," first used in his speech at Fulton, Missouri late in 1946, and the President's response to the Communist challenge in Greece and and Turkey, the Truman Doctrine...
Augmenting Radio Free Europe broadcasts with American classical music and sending a cross-section of American literature behind the Iron Curtain were other suggestions made by the group...
Picking years chosen to fit their point, Moscow's statistical wizards even "prove" that between 1952 and 1958 (a U.S. recession year), Russia registered steady increases in production of pig iron, steel, coal and cotton textiles, while the U.S. lost ground; absolute production figures, which show the U.S. far ahead in every important industrial and mining product except coal and iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country...
Died. De Benneville (Bert) Bell, 65, iron-willed National Football League Commissioner (1946-59) who, by a liberal use of his powers and an occasional violation of the letter of the bylaws, turned professional football into a booming sport, aroused interest to the point of doubling attendance and players' salaries; after a heart attack; in Philadelphia...