Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cash in somebody else's pocket we can fitcha in. If you've got that certain sense of touch that makes a businessman a businessman, the Service News was made for ya. Loin the business from the bottom up. Or ya like the solitude of the darkroom and the cool dribble of hypo through your fingers. Perhaps it's the flash of light bulbs and the excitement of dangerous assignments that fascinates ya. We got the darkroom, hypo, and we can cook up the danger...
...survival. As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty 17,000 tons a year to U.S. tables, are in the Columbia River's cool, green tributaries far up in the northwest mountains...
Says Bridge Champion Rapee: "Check is a welcome relief . . . from racking your brain over a mathematical bridge hand. . . ... Your interest is always kept up by the fast play . . . and you're never a dummy." Mrs. Helen Sobel, chic, cool No. 1 woman bridge expert, tried her hand at the game, gave an unexpected reason for its probable popularity: "A husband won't be able to tell his wife he's going out to play pinochle with the boys. . . . From now on, every wife can be part of the game...
...high cost of keeping agricultural prices from going through the roof (which set taxpayers back a cool $700 to $800 million for subsidy payments to farmers last year) may be much higher in 1945. This fact came out last week when War Food Administrator Marvin Jones bravely marched up Capitol Hill to ask the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to: 1) extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp., which expires June 30, for two more years; 2) expand CCC's borrowing power from $3 billion to $5 billion...
...Cool, retiring Georgia O'Keeffe's shows are hung by her husband, Photographer-Art Dealer Alfred Stieglitz, in an ascetically bare 17th-floor office building suite. Dealer Stieglitz also handles all O'Keeffe sales; these are usually accompanied by a resounding clang of the cash register. O'Keeffe oils bring between $3-4,000. Record: $10,000, in 1937, for an untitled flower piece bought by Manhattan Beautician Elizabeth Arden...