Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plain Yugoslavs were feeling the pinch of the U.S.S.R.'s blockade, but most were still eating better than their Russian comrades. The West was quietly giving Tito limited economic assistance. A French trade delegation arrived in Belgrade last week, joining U.S. and British engineers who are helping Tito build...
Blue-eyed Suzanne, a whirlwind of a woman at 41, finds time to teach a children's class at the Juilliard School of Music and another class for elementary-school teachers at City College. She keeps house for her husband Paul Smith, head of Columbia University's mathematics...
The hospital and District Health Department footed hospital bills (already upward of $3,500); laboratories ran expensive tests free; the Red Cross furnished the necessary plasma. Six strangers, all servicemen, volunteered skin grafts. In December, when Mike was at his lowest, the simultaneous arrival of four enormous birthday cakes from...
As a barometer of business, department store sales have been signaling trouble ahead. For six consecutive weeks sales have been below those of 1948. Last week the spell was broken.
In Manhattan, Gimbels threw a crowd-catching sale of summer furniture-and put thousands of Easter hats on the counters at $5 and up. In San Francisco, the City of Paris store slashed prices a third to a half on $160,000 worth of draperies. Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford...