Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust, used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps...
...story is told through the voices and memories of mourners who watched Franklin Roosevelt's funeral cortege in Washington. Mainly the screen is occupied by mfovie portraits of the late President, from the earliest to the last that were made. Several digressions describe the big depression, the distastrous dust storms of the middle '303, the building of Norris Dam, etc. The most striking digression traces the U.S. campaign in Europe, from the invasion of Normandy to the German surrender, while the President's voice quietly speaks the long prayer he composed for the invasion...
...Diamond Dust. Fashion Is Spinach, wrote Designer Elizabeth Hawes (in 1938) in a maverick mood. But to the fashion magazines the sand in he spinach is diamond dust. Last year, Vogue and Harper's made more money than ever (for Conde Nast Publications and Hearst, respectively). Their circulations (Harper's, 225,000, plus 39,000 British; Vogue, 304,000, plus 100,700 British and 12,000 French) are at an alltime peak. Recent issues have been skinnier than last year's ad-fat ones, and to cut costs Vogue recently cut its output from 24 issues...
More than 1,500 Puerto Ricans arrived in the U.S. last week. The majority were beggar-poor, had no prospects of jobs or any training. They were the 1947 version of the Okies who had fled from the Southwest's Dust Bowl. Instead of riding the highways, the Puerto Ricans rode the skies. Most of them arrived in the bucket seats of converted Army transport planes, operated by charter airlines at bargain rates. By last week, the migration from their crowded, poverty-stricken land to the U.S. was at flood tide...
...first day out, rusty water ran from the taps, and showers overshot their marks in the newly refitted bathrooms. Dust blew out of air-conditioners and the movie projector blacked out several times. But luxury-starved Britons cared little for such minor hitches. At the end of two days under a perfect summer sky, a svelte passenger stood by the ship's side inhaling the soft night air. Suddenly she caught sight of a dockside below littered with trucks, bales and dingy trains. "Oh, my God," she exclaimed, "how ghastly to see the Southern Railway again...