Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural wild mink coat, on sale after Christmas for $3,300 (with a 20% tax), would sell for $3,025 (with only a 10% tax). A half-ounce bottle of Chanel No. 5, now costing $12 with tax, would cost $11. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's Monday nights at the Met would cost her $1,221 a season instead of $1,320. A bottle of bonded bourbon, now selling for $6.90, would cost 60 less...
Excellent skiing on Mansfield above 32 inches of snow is luring big crowds to Stowe. Most popular of the local hotels is George Morrel's Lodge, which has had a good chance to show off the new coat of paint which it acquired in the ambitious refurbishing and expending that it underwent this summer. The Nose Dive and X-53 trails are reported in top-notch condition in spite of the large crowds skiing Mansfield these days...
Back from Christmas in Missouri, the President reluctantly peeled off his coat and rolled up his sleeves. The trip to Independence had been the kind of holiday he hated to cut short...
...curbstones of Manhattan's financial district. By 1900, the outdoor market had settled down in Broad Street. There, no matter what the weather, traders gathered daily to trade securities in a bedlam of shouting and sharp dealing. Nobody needed a license-only stout lungs, a fur-lined coat...
...dozen cashmere sweaters (at $35 apiece) for her young men friends; and wallets with engraved gold plates ("Eddie from Lana") for her older men friends. There were jackets, purses, gloves and jewelry for her women friends. There was a diamond and sapphire clip for her mother, an ermine coat for her 3½ year-old daughter. There were cases of bonded bourbon (at $120 a case) for the boys on the lot. The whole thing would simply be a production...