Word: easterly
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...winter snow had vanished. Street vendors were selling daffodils at 3 rubles each. Gourmets could buy tiny hothouse cucumbers, small succulent leaves of early lettuce, tiny radishes and tomatoes. Women discarded fur hats and thick wool shawls for bright head scarves. The sun came out. The Russian Pashka (Easter, a week later on the Julian calendar) had arrived in Moscow...
...such festive days as Easter, José makes early and serious preparation, selecting his assistants with care. He needs 60 strong men, sober, to handle the bells in both towers. When all are in place, he takes his position on the cathedral roof midway between the towers, where he can look through a skylight at the cathedral altar...
...Boston this week, the great Wagnerian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad made her first U.S. concert appearance since the war. It was easy for Boston, as it had been for London, Paris and Milan, to succumb to the persuasion of Flagstad's magnificent singing. She had shrewdly chosen an Easter program of Beethoven, Grieg and Brahms-and five U.S. composers. But the audience had not forgotten the roles that had made her famous, and shouted for Wagner. On the fifth encore she gave...
While they were hedging, many businessmen were uncomfortably aware that a turning point in the boom had already been reached. Easter shopping had been far smaller than expected. Though price rises kept dollar volume 10% higher than last year, unit sales were actually lower. Many a retailer, scared by his high inventories, was canceling orders. But the real bellwether was "soft goods" (textile) production. Most businessmen had kept their eyes on it, figuring that a drop in production there would be the first sign of a recession. Last week the drop came (see below...
...Maynard, Mass, the American Woolen Co.'s Assabet Mill, world's largest producer of woolen and worsted goods, closed down last week for the first time in eight years. It called the shutdown "an Easter vacation." In Atlanta, the Atlanta Woolen Mills Co. also shut its main branch. But it put no sugar coating on its reason: "We closed because we did not have enough orders to keep going...