Word: firming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problems. Museum Hair Specialist Vera Bland not only had trouble getting Nkrumah-like hair ("It is in very short commercial supply"), but paled at the prospect of putting it on the wax head at 1,000 hairs per sq. in. But at least, said Bernard Tussaud, boss of the firm, "he hasn't any bumps on his head at all. He seems a good-tempered, benevolent kind...
...Diane had 15 aspiring contestants crammed into her seedy Seventh Avenue office. Not all of them had been picked off the street-some hopefuls apply by mail, some are chosen from a show's studio audience, others are found by research, e.g., when a show-packaging firm needed a couple that had just celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, phone calls to catering services finally found one. Wherever they came from, Diane's victims were first subjected to a deceptively friendly interview. Within minutes she knew whether they had the scrubbed All-American look that goes big on Dotto...
...Risks & Perils." As on the powers of the presidency, De Gaulle was firm to the point of bluntness. He had no rigid conception of what the colonial federation should be, nor was he against allowing the federation to form alliances with other African states in "a vast community of free peoples." As he put it, "the work that has been started is immense and new: to build an ensemble on the basis of spontaneous acceptance [by France itself] and the overseas territories . . . of an association adapted to the realities of the modern world...
...declared: "No one can say that France has exploited Mauritania. On the contrary, it has been for her a burden." Most of French West Africa's present leaders want France to carry the burden for a long time to come-and France willingly does so in the firm belief that, with its deserts irrigated and its veins of wealth open, the territory will someday justify the effort...
...Stanley Steamer. It has two-thirds of its stores scattered where only one-third of the population lives. It invests only 2½% of product sales in advertising, well below many of its competitors. But last week greying, handsome President Justin Whitlock Dart, 51, announced that the firm's first-half sales were up 8%, net profit 26%. This year's volume should come close to $180 million and earnings should pass $5,000,000, the best in Rexall's 38-year history...