Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranch a mile down the road, Ike barely had his coat off before he was in the kitchen starting on his big project: a two-day vegetable soup. Hoover, an accomplished fly-fisherman who does not share Ike's love of cooking, spent more time wading in shallow St. Louis Creek. Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto...
Christian Dior should be hanged from the nearest coat hanger, and so should American designers who slavishly follow the dictates of Paris when their own work is so much more attractive, becoming, wearable and original, without being fantastic, as so many French models...
...Benito Mussolini was called to office as Head of the Government of Italy. "Excuse my appearance," the new boss told King Victor Emmanuel, "but I come from the battlefield." Mussolini referred to his Fascist Party black shirt, not the striped pants ("too long and tight") or the frock coat ("sleeves . . . too short") which he had borrowed from his pals. As for his "battlefield," this, too. was the property of friends: it was they who had made the historic "March on Rome" the preceding day, while Leader Mussolini stayed snug in the office of his Socialist newspaper, Il Popolo...
...Fourth-of-July orator, so the oft-told story goes, was delivering a speech about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln when, ready for the windup, he forgot their names. Glancing quickly toward the notes stuffed in his inside coat pocket, the flustered speaker hurriedly praised "those great American statesmen, Hart Schaffner and Marx...
...yarn more often than anyone else, still laughs every time he hears it; it is part of his job. As president of Hart Schaffner & Marx, he heads the biggest men's ready-to-wear company in the nation (1953 sales: $69 million). In the U.S. suit-and-coat industry, giant H.S. & M. does more business than the next four companies combined. To run the big company, Meyer Kestnbaum needs only one brief-.case; but he keeps four others packed full of work on a long list of outside projects...