Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when war came; the trick was production. Joe turned it by picking up the newest textile machines, applying the newest techniques, and plowing all profits back into more plants. Joe's aim was integration-enough plants to handle wool virtually from the sheep's back to finished cloth. In 1942 Airedale Worsted Mills, Inc. was healthy enough to take over Woonsocket's Bernon...
Again, Gandhi fasted. Princes and untouchables gathered in New Delhi to glimpse the dozing little man in a loin cloth, and to hear the latest medical bulletins. This time, however, a jarring note sounded. A small crowd of unsympathetic Hindus and Sikhs began to shout: "Let Gandhi die!" From an automobile lunged Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, who is India's Johnny-on-the-spot as Fiorello LaGuardia was Manhattan's. Cried Nehru: "How dare you say that? Kill me first!" Nehru chased the dissidents down the street. Inside, Gandhi dozed...
...government outlawed the Communist Party and the leftist EAM, and even "sympathizers" were threatened with severe penalties. In Athens some 500 Communists were already under arrest as a result of an episode three weeks ago when a policeman saw three men get out of a taxi carrying a suspicious cloth bag. When he tried to question them, they shot him dead, then fled through the ruins at the base of the Acropolis. (The cloth bag, it turned out, contained arms.) One of the three, a Communist hatchetman named Stamatis Bitsikas, was caught, broke down under interrogation and confessed...
...hole for the stuffing. In went the beef tongue, two pounds each of chopped veal and minced fresh pork, one pound each of salt pork and finely ground ham. Finally she added the turkey meat, cut from the bones, plus turnips, carrots and lots of onions. Tied in a cloth, the galantine was put in water and bay leaves to cook slowly for six hours. After that, she set it out to cool, then garnished it with red gelatine...
...decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...