Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reading, it looked like the chance of a lifetime. A rayon mill took a one-column display ad in the new York Times to hunt a "person of exceptional ability" to sit on its board of directors. Starting salary: $25,000 a year. All anyone had to do to land the job was get the company 15,000 Ibs. a month of four different kinds of rayon yarn. Only the textile industry knew what that condition meant: an extreme improbability. By last week, rayon yarn was so scarce that the scramble for it made the 1946 nylon search look...
Similar orientation on Radcliffe as far as College men are concerned always means a Saturday night dance at Agas-six Hall the first weekend of the term. There the new model co-ed has traditionally been on display to all connoisseurs...
...sure, the girls had only one chance to display their intellectual attainments. This was on a radio quiz show. "On what river is the U.S. Naval Academy located?" asked the quizmaster. Why, said Miss Utah, on the Mississippi River. Miss Chicago was convinced that Maryland had been named for Queen Elizabeth, and that Napoleon had been crowned Emperor by the French people (correct, the judges decided, because Napoleon, who crowned himself, was one of the French people).* Miss Chattanooga was asked: "What is the capital of Massachusetts?" She shifted uneasily, hesitated, finally burbled something which sounded very much like "Petroleum...
...Queen Elizabeth saluted her older sister with deep-throated blasts. Some 700 Cunard White Star guests, including a covey of admirals and a duke, were aboard to enjoy the ocean breezes in new super-deckchairs and gaze greedily at the shop windows in the promenade. The rich goods on display were held under customs seal until the Mary's first overseas passage this week, but there were free champagne, cocktails, candy and cigarets for everybody and a larder full of food, the like of which Britons had not seen in years, brought over from New York on the Elizabeth...
Nicholas Hilliard was the first, and greatest, of English miniaturists. Last week, 400 years after his birth, 101 Hilliard miniatures were on display in London's Victoria and Albert Museum...