Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aristocratic parents, Painter Tchelitchew fled from the Russian Revolution in 1918. In Berlin Tchelitchew was encouraged by renowned Ballet Master Sergei Diaghilev, is now considered "one of the few great stage designers of his period." But Gertrude Stein discovered Tchelitchew as a painter. Explained Miss Stein, after seeing his Basket of Strawberries: "This is why there is no flower this is why there is no flower in color this is why there...
...Ordered wages and farm prices stabilized at Sept. 15 levels. Henceforth no raises or cuts can be made without War Labor Board approval. Henceforth price ceilings will cover 90% of the items that go into the nation's market basket (notable exemptions: most fresh fruits and vegetables, which are almost impossible to control...
When salty, 55-year-old Admiral Boddam-Whetham retired in August 1939, he looked forward to a quiet old age in his Hampshire village, where, in baggy tweeds, basket on arm, he did his own marketing. Behind him were almost 40 years in the navy as commander of various destroyers and of the battleship Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks after retirement he was back in uniform, assigned chiefly to duty on the perilous Arctic convoy route, where his sailor's fear of fog and ice found ample justification...
...traffic laws; ride single file on right with traffic; don't zigzag; don't stunt; don't hitch rides on other vehicles; don't carry passengers on the handle bars; don't race cars; use the bell; remember arm signals; carry packages in a basket...
...ship masters of the period, who, through their trading packets, tea clippers and whaling ships, brought home souvenirs wrought by peoples and races in the East and South Seas untouched by the white man. Many a sea-captain must have been surprised to find, on returning home, that some basket or spear-head which he had picked up as a mere curio was sought after by the scolarly directors of a pioneer museum as an item both priceless and probably never again to be duplicated...