Word: chromium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown to be the nation's most powerful bank, a financial monstrosity with a "resource potential" of more than $14 billion which it could lend to states, municipalities, private banks, private businessmen, private citizens. In a 12-story building on Vermont Ave., amidst chromium and marble, in a magnificent air-cooled hush preside the giants who control this enterprise-the five directors. Harry Truman thought George should he one of them...
Everybody's doing it. Harvard plans to abolish the free elective system. Colgate has rebuilt its curriculum around a "core" of seven required courses. In Yale's "Experimental Program," students take prescribed courses for the first two years. The postwar educational models differ somewhat in chromium extras, but in one way all are alike: students will have less chance at the wheel than their immediate predecessors...
...office building next door and wants to have St. Mary's condemned so that he can use the property for a parking lot. But Sister Bergman and her nuns pray night & day that mean old Mr. Bogardus will see the light and give up his fine new chromium and steel office building to the school. Father Bing is frankly skeptical of the nuns' childlike faith-until a Hollywood miracle proves him wrong...
Slip of the Hand. But when Perc and his brothers branched out into the beauty business in 1933, in a pink-brocaded, chromium and black-glass salon on Sunset Boulevard, their, hand slipped. None had any business sense. The House of Westmore almost folded before they hired a businessman, S. Willard Isaacs, former owner of a local beauty-shop chain, to run it. He still runs the House of Westmore. Last year it grossed $2,225,000 from the sale of Westmore products, $300,000 more from the salon, paid the brothers both salaries and handsome dividends...
...things in Japan would remind many U.S. soldiers of home. One is the climate-hot, muggy summers and bright, cold winters. Bars have chromium furniture, neon lights and Japanese-made "scotch." There are (or were) U.S.-style dance bands. In unbombed neighborhoods, the conquerors will see familiar trade names (sometimes slightly confused in pirating and copying, as "Interwomen" for Interwoven Socks). And, just as North America has its Indians, Japan has its aboriginal Ainus, a lightskinned, hairy people whose women tattoo blue mustaches on their lips...