Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local police quavered impotently as gangs overran the town, stoned, knifed and clubbed Europeans and non-Tudeh Persians, and pillaged and wrecked their homes. Then, at the riot's height, a band of 400 desert pirates crossed the muddy Shattel-Arab, raided the bazaar section and fled back across the river with their loot...
Like a woman wistfully leafing through Harper's Bazaar, American Airlines, Inc. leafed through planemakers' blueprints. It saw more shiny new planes than it could afford. But it ordered them anyway-$96,000,000 worth, to be delivered before the end of 1948. American's total assets were then...
Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Superman Enterprises and a dozen comic-book publishers had applied to cover the big show, and were turned down; representatives of Air Aces, a bi-monthly pulp comic, and Charm, a fashion slick, were accepted. No group was more peeved at being slighted than the British press, which was given a quota of three newsmen; Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia each had as many. Russia and nine other nations were allowed one each...
...since the war began, top-drawer mass magazines were feeling the old summer newsstand slump. But giants like LIFE, Satevepost and McCall's were not. Neither were the glamor mags. Street & Smith's Mademoiselle and Charm, Walter Annenberg's Seventeen and Hearst's new Junior Bazaar were selling pellmell. Women's magazines have made spectacular advertising gains this year. So has the Post which picked up 29% while Atlas Corp.'s limping Liberty lost...
...Canada to the Mother Country, but politically he would be a nonentity. He would have to present himself, smiling, at all sorts of functions. He would entertain and be entertained. He would have to show interest in every form of public activity, from a cornerstone-laying to a charity bazaar. He would open sessions of Parliament, and sign bills. He would have ample time for sightseeing around the country, and would live in grand style in a 75-room Government House on an 85-acre estate at Ottawa, with 40-odd servants at his call...