Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed this routine as methodically as a toolmaker setting up a lathe. He drove his 1941 Chevrolet sedan into the garage behind his neat white six-room house at 9:30 p.m. His wife turned on the back porch light; he walked into the kitchen, took off his coat, asked about their 5½ year-old daughter Linda, and sat down to some warmed-up beef stew...
...Walpole, to the manor born, worked for the good of the landed gentry. A high liver, a great man for the ladies, he was also a follower of the hounds. Bachelor Mackenzie King lives austerely. Though he has been known to ride, he would be miserable in a pink coat...
...Congress will receive the present proposal is anybody's guess. Already the House has expressed strong opposition to it, and would much rather see a 19-25 draft only. Some circles have criticized this apparent attempt to "ride universal military training through on the coat tails of the draft." Instead of UMT, the House is urging an Air Force of 70 groups, a figure somewhat in excess of Secretary Forrestal's estimate, as a more practical measure. But in defense of UMT General Omar Bradley warned Congress that air power was not the primary concern. "The alternative...
...with him to see the first showing of The Hymn of the Nations, the movie he made for OWI during the war, said he looked away self-consciously whenever his image came on the screen. But he dresses fastidiously, is visibly pleased when a friend remarks on a new coat or suit (most of which he still has made for him in Italy...
...Words or Less . . ." Typical "cancer month" commercial, on Manhattan's WQXR: "Would you like to win a $9,300 house ... a $2,000 Alaska seal fur coat, a ... piano, an ... automobile? . . . Listen to the details of the New York City Cancer Committee's amazing radio jackpot contest! All you have to do is to complete in 25 words or less the statement 'I give to conquer cancer because . . .' and send it in with a contribution of at least 25?." Chief designer of the new technique in cancer fund-raising is Campaign Chairman Elmer H. Bobst...