Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other time in its 52-year history and 1,000 above last year's registration. The combined New York Curtain & Drapery and National Domestics & Linen Shows hung up a new record with 575 buyers pawing for goods regardless of prices. Sixth Avenue manufacturers reported spring dress, suit and coat orders up 40-200%, talked darkly of allocating production to cut down order-padding. One excited OPA economist predicted to the Millinery Merchandising Executives' Association that retail hat sales this year would hit $250,000,000-more than double last year's total...
Gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge was a bitter, unhappy man last week as he turned over the Governorship of Georgia to stocky, ambitious Ellis Gibbs Arnall. With his coat collar turned up, his owl eyes staring straight ahead, he sat glumly on the platform throughout Arnall's inauguration; when the ceremonies were over he refused to shake hands, stomped off to his home in the hardwood swamps of Telfair County...
These startling statistics were headlined last week by the newspaper PM, which stated that it backed them with a study made by OPA. Run with a cartoon showing a stout gentleman in a frock coat with an American flag in one hand and a bag of money in the other, the figures purported to be a damning indictment of the U.S. business profiteer...
...line, like those of the old one in operation since 1935, are granite-floored, clean and glistening, walled with colored marbles, studded with mosaics, friezes, murals and statuettes of Russian workers, soldiers, sailors. An austere statue of Joseph Stalin striding forward, one hand thrust in the breast of his coat, dominates the new terminal platform. The platform was decorated by Professor Vladimir Frolov, who was killed recently in Leningrad after burying mosaics to save them from Nazi shells. A large mural depicts a pilot, a tankman and a tommy-gunner against a background of a mailclad Muscovite warrior standing defiantly...
After he'd bought and eaten two toasted cinnies and a cup of coffee, the Freshman pushed into his coat again, and started out. The Navy man was ahead of him, and was putting on his gloves outside when the old-type Yardling walked through the second swing door. The officer, waiting, turned around. He hesitated. "I want to shake your hand," he said. "I've been in this place for three months and you're the first Harvard man that's spoken...