Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Del Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore year for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and was given his degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a glass on cloth. That ended when the mill shut down. Next he tried selling Addresograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and to the Business School. It was while there that Dean Greenough asked him to become one of his assistant deans. His interest in economics led him to tutoring in that...
Five in Camp. The five camped for a while near the damaged plane. Hitchhiker Scalise made an emergency shelter of brush and parachute cloth. The Spam sandwiches intended for lunch lasted five days. Weatherbeaten Sergeant Scalise became cook. His tin helmet made a fine cooking...
...real café criollo give me every time the Cuban style of coffee roasted with brown sugar, freshly ground and powdered and run through a cloth bag, after you stir it into boiling water heated over a charcoal fire. That is the real thing and easily worth 10? (un real), for it is well said to be as sweet as love, black as sin and hot as hell...
Shanghai citizens were tickled last week by a funeral with a live corpse. Riding in a coffin hauled on a cart was a grimacing old man clutching a carton of cigarettes, two cases of laundry soap, some boxes of matches and a roll of cloth. Every block or so the old man climbed out of his coffin to harangue the crowd on the evils of hoarding and speculating. Inscriptions on dancing banners and placards read: "Those who hoard are public enemies," and "Who damages the gold yuan will have his head chopped...
...Please Do Something." One recent Thursday, the suppliants in Chiang Ching-kuo's office included a grey-gowned businessman, a woman soothing a black-diapered baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products...