Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...utility interest. He and Chicago Banker Arthur Cecil Allyn put up about $750,000, got the rest of the nearly $5,000,000 they needed for the deal through public stock issues. The new Emanuel-Allyn company (National Electric Power Co.) promptly expanded in all directions, in typical Emanuel fashion, soon controlled 14 utilities sprawled across the nation. The system, and the beautiful map outlining it, so impressed the late Samuel Insull, then grabbing up utilities like peanuts, that he bought out Emanuel and Allyn, paying them about...
...outstanding characteristic as an educator is that he is interested in education-which is a point of view not as typical of college presidents as it might be. He looks on education as "a social process." as something very much a part of the community. In Emersonian fashion, he inveighs against "the recluse who has almost ceased to be a man, and whose labors in the library or the laboratory differ from stamp collecting only by the courtesy of a name." Says he: "Personally, I like the word 'relevance.' ... To my mind a scholar's activities should...
...back all of this whoop and hurrah. Last year the industry (No. 4 in the state) did a business of $320,000,000, up almost 500% over 1939. This year it expects to gross $400,000,000, making it even with Chicago as the nation's second biggest fashion center. Some sunny Californians predict that California's dress business will zoom in a few years to a round billion, not far behind New York's, biggest in the world...
...industry has one great advantage: it can display its wares in the world's best showcase-Hollywood-and it cashes in notably through Adrian (he eschews his first name: Gilbert), who last year was named No. 1 U.S. stylist by New York fashion critics. In his Ionic-columned salon in Beverly Hills, Adrian turns out $2 million worth of clothes a year. Yet he and the few other top-ranking stylists (e.g. Howard Greer, Orry-Kelly), gross only 5% of the industry's total...
Paris' fall fashion shows opened, and Schiaparelli's outstanding contribution proved to be a bustle-a bustle on almost everything. Molyneux's favorite colors sounded like sublimations: butter yellow, burnt orange, light mustard. Favorite couturière of the boulevardiers was doubtless Mlle. Alixt: she had daytime dresses with necklines clear to the waistline...