Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arkansas' Governor Sidney McMath, 37, arrived in Manhattan to confer a special honor of his state, the title "Arkansas Traveler," on a Center Point, Ark. girl: department store Bigwig Dorothy Shaver, president of Fifth Avenue's Lord & Taylor.
More than a quarter-century later, Snyder, now 64-year-old senior entomologist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is still fascinated with the life & times of the termite. When Snyder joined the Department of Agriculture in 1909, the most up-to-date termite catalogue available was one published five...
A Ready Answer. In three days of speeches and group discussions there was plenty of doing. Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson had a few encouraging words for N.A.M.'s consistent plea for economy in government. Said he: "The $15 billion budget of 1949-50 for our department will...
In the advertising world, the quipsters say, every agency has a special back door to accommodate its swarms of vice presidents. Last week, Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, Inc., fifth biggest U.S. agency,* had to enlarge its doors. It added four women to its present complement of 40 male V.P.s...
¶ In a Chicago department store, Santa found that many moppets were fascinated by the ticking of his watch, decided to do even better. He buried an alarm clock in his stuffed paunch. All went well until the alarm went off, sent terrified children scampering across the floor.