Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine fashion, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate the names of two appointees to the new Surplus Property Board. They were Connecticut's ex-Governor Robert A. Hurley, 49, and Lieut. Colonel Edward Hellman Heller, 44, multimillionaire member of one of San Francisco's first families, who resigned seven directorships to join the Army. Fifteen minutes after the names reached the Hill, the squall broke...
...Government denied all these reports, indignantly denounced them as "disturbing." But there were plenty of other reasons for the French to be disturbed about the delicate health of the franc. The main fact was the De Gaulle Government is still attacking the tough problem of French inflation in piecemeal fashion, has as yet had little success...
Under the new regime some first rate drilling is being done over in the cage. This structure feels as though it would swell up balloon fashion any minute in these Charles River breezes. Battalion Commander Dave Schieder assured us privately that the structure is insured--as for us, well, we've stood through those industrial management classes...
...years, shrill, tough Florabel has been working on a no-quarter basis, is supposedly the first woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...
Besides working in the fields, Saipan's civilians are beginning to return to their old trades: fishing, handicraft, light industry. Common laborers are paid 35? daily, skilled workers 50?. Some women have started making two-for-a-nickel cigars. A curio business is being started to fashion souvenirs for the Americans...