Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...margin, thought the police, was close enough to try for an upset; they rushed election headquarters with a big batch of last-minute votes for Yolanda. But when they arrived, said the police, canny General Otero's troops had got there first, with arms instead of votes. His soldiers bluntly told the police that the polls were closed...
Benevolent Boy Frog. Diego himself is a benevolent monster, six feet tall and weighing close to 250 pounds. No two people, seeing him for the first time, would be likely to describe him in the same way, but Rivera's wife, Surrealist Frida Kahlo, an accomplished painter in her own right, has pictured him as he seems to her. In a chapter written for a forthcoming book, Diego Rivera: 50 Years of His Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that...
Well aware of the close tie with U.S. shippers, Lloyd's Register tried to soothe the American Bureau of Shipping by saying: "There should be many opportunities in the future for cooperation . . . for the benefit of world shipping...
...England, where the textile slump had already caused some 20,000 to be laid off, there was one bright spot. The U.S. Air Force awarded contracts for $20 million worth of woolen cloth. To get the business, mills had slashed their bids close to cost, in some cases below it. The catch was that the prices, as much as $1.25 a yard lower than those on civilian goods, were sure to increase the demand of retailers for cheaper goods...
...foot trade has made Tiffany's rich, and its stock a sapphire-blue chip. Tiffany's shareholders are a far more exclusive group than its clientele; outside the families of the founder and of the longtime partners, there are only about 200 stockholders, who now own close to 50% of the 12,000 seldom-traded shares. Last week Tiffany's got ready to let more of the public in. At their annual meeting, stockholders voted to split the stock (currently quoted in over-the-counter trading at $600 to $650) 16 for 1. Tiffany's shares...