Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demand is so great, said Fox, that Vacuum has had to allocate shipments and is thinking of setting up a California plant. The shortage temporarily takes some of the bloom off the Crosby deal. But Vacuum hopes to step up output enough to fill the new orders Crosby will bring in. And in the scramble for the new market, Vacuum figures that Crosby is just the Pied Piper needed to lure customers away from the old brand names...
Everything that goes into the magazine must have a Gould O.K. They even approve (with a calculating eye on what's really good for women) the little epigrams that bloom back among the ads. A sample blossom...
...death all Jewish, Polish, Russian and French women who were pregnant, in the gas chambers, and in the crematorium. I aborted them to save their lives." Last winter Congress passed a special bill granting Dr. Perl permanent residence in the U.S., on the urging of Representative Sol Bloom, who praised her "simple humanity" in saving "the lives of more than 3,000 women...
...Strasse stands a chestnut tree. Six weeks ago, a U.S. plane flying in Operation Vittles crashed against it, killing two U.S. flyers. The flames of the crash scorched one side of the tree, whose branches now hang black and dead, while they warmed the other side into defiant, unseasonable bloom. Last week beneath the tree were small bunches of asters in a cracked, cheap drinking glass, and forget-me-nots in an empty grapefruit...
...born on April 30, was as unlikely to be long confused with her mother as she was to assume her mother's birthday. In fact, she began her reign with an act of independence. Wilhelmina's daughter would have none of the orange marigolds which bloom everywhere in floral tribute to the House of Orange. For her formal inauguration, Queen Juliana ordered Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk banked instead with pink begonias...