Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing-dancing, dining out, picnicking, traveling-but very little working. Others objected to a scene showing teenagers romping to raucous rock 'n' roll. But the fashion industry committee that put the show together (at the request of the U.S. exhibition's General Manager Harold C. McClellan) felt that the "not representative" charge was aimed primarily at scenes showing whites and Negroes mingling at social events, notably a civil wedding with a white couple serving as the attendants of a Negro bride and groom. Having shown dubious taste by including so phony a scene in the first place...
...proletarian best. In the mining town of Katowice he proudly proclaimed: "I used to work as a miner myself." insisted that no smell was more "dear to my heart" than the smell of coal dust. He felt so confident, in fact, that at one point he dared to strike a particularly sensitive spot. "Your priests," he said, "promise you happiness in heaven. We will offer you happiness here on earth. Those black-robed beggars don't want to work for it." Only when he followed up by asking whether everyone was happy was he made aware of the deadly...
...work excavating gravel from a water-filled pit in Kent, England last week, a workman felt his scoop hit an obstacle. He gave it an extra pull, and near fainted from fright: up came a 1,100-lb. bomb, a German dud from World War II. Within minutes, the Royal Engineers' Bomb Disposal Unit at Horsham, Sussex was racing to the rescue. A few hours later, all was clear again. The bomb was expertly defused and trucked off to a bomb graveyard where the explosive filling could be steamed out in safety -at least for Kent's homeowners...
...Black Thursday, 1929, the day the stock market collapsed, Wall Street was a scene of chaos, and many a suddenly paupered stockholder felt that the end of the world had come. One among them had a different thought; he dashed off to a friend's studio to make a lithograph of the disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints...
Most businessmen felt that, barring a really disastrous steel strike, the second half would be as good as the first, and maybe better. Their outlook for all of 1959: a record year for both sales and profits...