Word: fabricators
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolution," said Miss Cannell. Women are stripped of their furs in the street. Sometimes this is the act of patriots resentful of profiteers and collaborators. More frequently it is the sign of increasing lawlessness, a growth of gangsterism. Women "defy restrictions with monumental hats that take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected...
...production was down 5% from 1942, in turn down 3% from the 1941 peak; 461,573,000 pairs were produced (9% above 1939, the prewar high). This looked like a lot, but 47 million went to the military, and another 100,000,000 or so were heavy workshoes or fabric and composition numbers ranging from canvas beach & tennis shoes to strictly fireside slippers...
Less Chichi. Nonetheless, most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
...later broadcast were swift and frightening. The British Government presented its stern denial directly to the Soviet Government. The British press fired harsh words at Russia for the first time since Hitler turned east: lie, insult, slander. Nazi propaganda set to work to prove a fatal rift in the fabric of agreement supposedly woven at Teheran, raise again the specter of a Red Europe. Ordinary Russians, taught to believe their press implicitly, now wondered whether Britain was about to betray them. In the U.S. many a plain citizen had his faith in Russia as an ally and as a responsible...
...tire material is an elastic vinyl plastic called Plioflex, which Good year had already found good for many other uses, including a garden hose which is much lighter than rubber-and-fabric, shoe uppers that need no polishing and can be cleaned with a damp cloth, heels, raincoats, draperies, etc. The key to its tire-making properties is a new curing agent that makes it possible to vulcanize Plioflex...