Word: dresser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commercial question-trade with Russia and her satellites-the U.S. and her allies are sharply split. Last week the split widened. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, with the backing of the Pentagon, refused to okay a deal between Texas' Dresser Industries, Inc. and the Soviet Ministry of Trade. Dresser wanted to import what it called a revolutionary turbine oil-well drill developed by Russian engineers. In return it would agree to ship the Russians some of its own rotary rock drill bits, instruct them in their use. But Commerce, State and Defense Department experts decided that Dresser would get nothing...
...more tradition dresser can go down to the sea in classic clamdiggers, in a spare, Italian cut, augmented by side vents for ease around the knees. With them he can wear a pull-over beach shirt styled with matching vents and a new Italian collar fastened with rope. To complete the Continental look are broad-brimmed straw hats with tapered crown and patterned band...
...good friend. Sloan, a graven-faced Connecticut Yankee, practiced prohibition for years, wears a stickpin, dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...
...Brother Paul gives an autobiographical account of Dreiser's love for his composer-brother Paul Dresser (he changed his name), and how Dreiser came to write the opening lines for his brother's best-remembered composition, now the state song of Indiana...
...moviegoing public in the role of Ludwig van Beethoven. Before the cameras began to turn, however, somebody began to have doubts. Was not Beethoven, after all, a somewhat limited personality? He was not nearly so famous in his time as Liberace is today, and besides he was a careless dresser. Liberace decided to "insist that all the different facets of my personality ... be included in the picture." As a result, the Beethoven story seems to have been combined with the plot of a well-known melodrama, The Man Who Played God. Liberace could now express his musical talents as Beethoven...