Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hemline could no longer be held. With wartime controls on industry falling away like autumn leaves (see The Economy), CPA last week turned women's fashions back to free enterprise. It killed order L-85, the wartime measure which restricted the use of materials in dresses and women's coats. CPA's action came in the nick of time. Retailers already had on hand hundreds of thousands of fall and winter garments mistakenly and illegally made in disregard of L-85. Now retailers, who had faced losses in the millions, could sell the clothing. But the full...
...with Hurok and took her troupe to London, where they packed Covent Garden for two months. Thereupon Manager Hurok imported the Russian troupe from South America and bolstered it up with the peerless Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks of London) and other favorites. Then the two companies booked parallel autumn seasons, and the battle...
...academic in Cambridge these Autumn days. With many students of voting age for the first time in University history, gov. lectures and ordinary bull sessions can find practical application in the polling booths on November 2. This year's electorate has a novel newcomer, the student-voter, who can base his choice upon a maximum of principle and a minimum of self-interest. The important reasons for voting are obvious to all, and newspaper and radio should provide the information necessary for the intelligent voter to decide which levers to pull on election...
...along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...
According to William J. Bender, councillor for Veterans, an influx of more than 3,000 married veterans this autumn has sent the anticipated number of accompanying offspring well above the original estimates...