Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader rose to speak routine words: "It is indeed a great honor and a very heavy responsibility to be selected to lead a great national party." His responsibility will be greater than that. This fall, when Mackenzie King gives up the Prime Minister's job he has held for 21 years, Louis St. Laurent will take that...
...news, and a green-colored sports section. But Tuesday noon, Publisher Norman Chandler called staffers to his fifth-floor auditorium, solemnly told them: "The news is too exciting to be withheld from you any longer . . . The Times is to sponsor a new newspaper. It will appear in the fall . . . and will be housed in our new annex. If anybody asks you about this, tell him you don't know the details." Then he introduced its new publisher, who (to nobody's surprise) turned out to be ex-U.P.man Virgil Pinkley...
...lose by the shutdown. The unions were sure the Met was out to get them. Obviously stunned by the shutdown, they met together this week to see whether, by modifying their demands, they could change the board's mind. If they did, the Met might yet open this fall, possibly several weeks late. But the board expressed no such hope: it promised only to "consider ways & means" of resuming "another year...
...less than two months. Blaming increased costs and "material shortages which cause production interruptions," it added $75-about 5%-to the price of Fords.* Lincolns and Mercurys were boosted proportionately, and other manufacturers were sure to follow suit-Nash, for instance, when their new models come out this fall...
...annual whirl of fall showings last week, socialites, fashion writers and buyers once again filled the Paris salons with silky ohs & ahs. They nodded and buzzed over Schiaparelli's jungle-inspired dinner dresses (trimmed with monkey fur and tiger skin), Maggy Rouff's deep-cut necklines, Jacques Path's tight, shimmering wedding gown (which was pinned together in a last-minute rush, came apart while harpists strummed an Ave Maria...