Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk's voice droned on, Senator Black scribbled rapidly, drafting a resolution ordering Sergeant Jurney to arrest and forthwith bring Mr. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate. With no delay the resolution was passed and Mr. Jurney with a red carnation in the buttonhole of his morning coat hastened out to do his duty. Two hours later he was back to report that he could not find Mr. MacCracken. He was ordered to keep on trying. Meanwhile the Senate called in the three airway officials who had been kept cooling their heals in a side room under guard...
...side street in Rochester, Minn., 85 mi. south of St. Paul. Edward walked dizzily in circles for a while, finally made his way back to his father's house by bus, train and cab. All the way home he kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held him 22 days. Safe in his father's home he told a piteous tale of beatings, confinement and fright, then collapsed sobbing...
...pleasant understatement in love-scenes and in the gushier aspects of patriotism. There is a refreshing lack of grim firing-squads, father-confessors, aerial suicides, poisoned wine. For these melodramatic trappings are substituted the lesser tools of spycraft; viz, notes inside cigarettes, underground passages, patriotic badge under the coat-lapel, (two safety-plus sinister), secret knocks on window panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective," the local German bigwig. She is even unhistorically rescued...
...electric locomotives for some $15,000,000. In his exuberance over this vast enterprise President Atterbury last week handed dazzled newshawks two new business "indices." "The thing to watch for is paint," said the General. "If you see a box car going along with a bright new red coat of paint on it you will know that the railroad that owns it is doing a profitable business again. . . . Everybody stops painting when profits stop. . . . Watch emery wheels. Watch the carborundum business. When industry begins to use its tools, it needs emery wheels to keep them in shape...
...Merchant Tailor Designers Association, settled down for a four-day annual convention at the Palmer House in Chicago to consider them. In the mezzanine were such exhibits as knickerslacks and directors' suits. In the Grand Ballroom were lively discussions of the color of waistcoats, the cut of coat tails. Haughtily ignoring the ready-to-wear industry which actually controls mass styles, the tailors recommended tuxedo vests of maroon and purple, claret and gold; opera capes of blue vicuna lined with scarlet and purple. The Fashion Committee was in favor of streamlining men's clothes: ". . . a stripe, for example...