Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature thought well enough of prospects for 1953 to distribute an early bonus, there didn't seem to be much reason not to hang up the automobile chains, get out the seed catalogue, and anticipate that illusion of well-being which modern man derives from an early coat of sunburn...
Taxpayer's Blessing. Byrd's confidence seemed well grounded. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, believes that RFC has long outlived its usefulness. Missouri's freshman Democratic Senator, Stuart Symington, the man who put RFC back on its feet after the mink coat and Lustron scandals of 1951 (TIME, Feb. 12, 1951 et seq.), is not expected to come to the agency's defense. Even enthusiastic RFC backers might go along in the liquidation if some other agency e.g., the Federal Reserve, were to take over the RFC function of small-business loans...
Last week the coat was done. The two Princesses took it out to the Prophet's ornate, 25-room "French Castle," knelt and presented it to him. Tears came to the Prophet's eyes as he slipped it on. He intoned "God's will is done." It was only a preview, said the Princesses, "of things to come from our most fortunate gratitudes...
...spinsters' brother, Sterling, promptly bought the Prophet a $3,900 Lincoln as a token of gratitude. The two women decided to give him something even more wonderful-a full-length let-out white mink coat with a raglan flare-back, shawl collar, scarlet silk lining and deep flap pockets lined with velvet. This took some time. The girls had to scrape up $2,000 for a down payment and agree to pay off the total price of $12,900 plus carrying charges at a rate of $475 a month. The astounded New York furrier who was commissioned...
...There is more to scientific research than the advertisements' picture of a little man in a white coat swinging a test tube," stated Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, at last night's conference on Scholarship and Research...