Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detail had been spared to make their trip a success, no chance overlooked to display Britain's manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets...
...Havana, the slack tourist season was a headache. At a big Communist-sponsored photo display of life in the Soviet Union, a bomb went off. Black-marketers were annoyed by a general strike against them. But for U.S. housewives the news was sweet: Cuba's biggest sugar crop since shortly after World War I (an estimated 5,800,000 tons) is boiling in the refinery tanks; the U.S. will get approximately 5,000,000 tons of it. For Cubans the good news is that the sugar will bring almost 5? a pound (as compared with last year...
Only those students whose paintings, photographs, sketches and statuary were chosen from among the fall term House exhibits by Faculty judges will be eligible to take part in the Fogg display...
Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and who is especially well-known in English, is the subject of a current exhibit in the showcase of Widener and Houghton Libraries. The display commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the poet's death...
...fabrics-and what they got was often unmistakably hideous. Last week the powerful American Institute of Decorators, out to put a little polite pressure on industry, awarded prizes to 1946's best designs, and hoped that industry would take the hint. The decorators' choices went on display in Chicago's Art Institute...