Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devalued by 12.3%. Among the holdouts were Switzerland, Italy and Pakistan, but all of them faced trouble exporting their goods at the old exchange rates. Few were in the monopoly position of Pakistan, which seemed to have decided that India could not get along without Pakistani jute and cotton and would have to pay at the pre-devaluation rate for them. (India promptly raised cries of "blackmail...
Backless Books. His first students numbered 35-girls in pigtails and fresh cotton dresses, boys in faded, shabby shirts. They had come with their dinner baskets in their hands and battered, backless books under their arms. Not one wore shoes. There were 19-year-olds in the first grade, 14-year-olds in the second, and a twelve-year-old girl in the eighth...
Marriage Revealed. Will L. Clayton, 69, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-47) and longtime chairman of the Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest cotton brokers; and Susan Vaughan Clayton, sixtyish, who had divorced him last May after 47 years of marriage; on Aug. 6; in Jasper, Alta...
...stab to the psychological soft spots of men & women. They appealed to fear ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), to snobbery ("Men of Distinction"), to romance ("She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"). They spoke in euphemisms, wrapped like cotton around the harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers to movie stars, were astoundingly successful sales plugs. ("Fifty million women a week see movies," explained one adman. "They see these dames always get their...
...sexy. He says, 'Look like a kitten,' and I look like a kitten. It is always the dress, it is never, never the girl." As one satisfied customer put it: "A lot of models will not move a muscle for a cheap dress. Lisa makes a $10 cotton dress look like a Schiaparelli." Mockingly, Lisa Fonssagrives puts it another way: "I'm just a good clothes hanger...