Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They would get rid of the 5,500 ships in this fashion: 1,325 to U.S. operators; 1,050 to foreign operators (for cash only) ; 1,000 good ships as a "Balanced Reserve Fleet" to be kept in first-class condition but "sterilized" (frozen out of competition), some 2,100 ships of dubious value either kept in a "Residual Reserve" or scrapped. Most of this latter class, presumably, would be Liberty ships, which the Harvard group called uneconomical. (Shipping men consider them economical for hauling low-grade, no-hurry cargoes...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
...approved Russian fashion, Critic Zaslavsky called Critic Luce a Fascist and "Goebbels' unconsoled political widow." He added: "This lady does not like us. Furthermore she hates us with a passion which is more African than American in violence...
...days and five nights they traveled in this fashion from Boston to California-500 veterans of the European war, now on their way to fight another war. When they got off the train at Camp Beale, Calif., they let out a G.I. gripe that could be heard all the way back in Washington...
Catering to San Francisco's upper middle class, paternalistic, 79-year-old O'Connor, Moffatt's has displayed its wares in a subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line, ad, or antic smacking of the sensational. Example: last year O'C.M. turned down an Adrian-designed dress line as "too Hollywood"; the rival City of Paris across the street snapped it up, did handsomely...