Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's IBM machines allow 18 spaces for both last names and initials, and "this is usually more than enough," Cameron Lawrence, assistant to the Registrar, says. Not only was there no room for initials in Albrechtskirchinger's case, but it was also necessary to drop the final "r" from his 19-letter last name in order to squeeze him into the lists...
Society swells and bohemians alike flocked to Foujita's exhibitions. Utrillo and Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss...
True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships...
...speculative look at the future. For the rest of this year he guessed that unit sales would pick up and match last year's record high, although dollar volume would dip. Next year looked almost as good. "The next six months," predicted Lazarus, "will show no further drop in employment or production." Federated's Director Paul M. Mazur, a senior partner of Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm, thought that the strikes even held some concealed blessings for business: "They often provide a heaven-sent opportunity to clean up burdensome inventories...
...around. Pondering this, along with the Federal Government's whopping deficit and higher industrial costs created by 1949's pension settlements, Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton last week warned: "You might as well forget about much cheaper manufacturers' products." Although he predicted a drop in business next spring, the U.S. was currently in "a period of creeping inflation...