Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...achieved membership as mayor. Worse, he fought with the district attorney, who finally embarrassed him by engineering a raid of New Bedford gambling joints by a small army of 121 state cops. Even then, Mayor Peirce might have got by if he had not turned, in rough and highhanded fashion, upon a police lieutenant named Alfred Figueira, who was the head of his vice squad and his chief partner in crime...
...into a couple of rickshas. Singing gay Cantonese songs to drown out any possible outcry, the men pulled the rickshas to an empty house in a desolate part of Macao,where they opened up the sacks and retrussed the two youths. They wound cloth tape around their heads mummy fashion, leaving space only for nostrils and mouths. They replaced the oranges with unshelled walnuts, stuffed their ears with cotton, and bound their limbs with ropes and electric wires which they nailed to the floor...
...reactors that can produce more fuel than they consume. They also built an atomic engine for a submarine, and they got to work on an atomic power plant for aircraft. But for all their concentration on military applications, scientists continued to hope that by splitting atoms in an orderly fashion, they could produce large amounts of useful commercial power...
...evil arose in logical enough fashion. In World War I, the first excess profits tax was slapped on to prevent war profiteering. Its yield of $2.5 billion was big for those days, when a whole year's war budget was only $6 billion. In World War II, EPT's yield was tremendous: $28 billion, or 58% of all corporate taxes paid during the war. The tax again made a rough sort of sense because the bulk of industry was mobilized and fared equally under EPT. But when EPT was slapped on again in 1950, even...
...clothing company (named after his wife) to the point where it grossed $7,100,000 last year, selling through 1,400 retail stores. Last week Schuman showed off the results of some of his thinking: he opened a new $2,000,000 three-story plant, and celebrated with a fashion show at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. There, amid the popping of champagne corks, models drifted along the runway wearing coats and suits of Schuman's new fall line. But the important part of Schuman's thinking was not only the designs; it was the fact that...