Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been in this war a long time, seen action and must see much more I think your little fairy tale does the hope of mine and of all partisans of peace a grievous disservice. . . . The flower of world collaboration is a tender one indeed. And every hand in the world is not too many to nurture...
...Dominion's War Assets Corp., charged with disposing of war surpluses, offered some 19,000 obsolete steel Army helmets at 49? each. Canadians were uninterested, even when WAC suggested that the helmets would make good flower pots, feeding bowls for pets, bird baths or hens' nests. It began to look as if the helmets would have to be junked...
Count Giuseppe Volpi, 67, felt like a blooming magnolia-one of the pink & white magnolias that were bursting into flower again in Lausanne's formal gardens. For another spring had come to the new ruins of old Europe, amidst which the Count was somewhat surprised to find himself alive. From the Beau-Rivage Hotel, Mussolini's ex-finance minister could watch the Lake of Geneva reflect the blue sky as in a sun-flecked mirror. Some mornings were so crisp that the Count could see clear across to Evians-les-Bainson the French shore, where, in the evil...
Shops & Salons. Smith agreed. With Daily News Secretary-Treasurer William R. Powell hemming & hawing in for a third of the deal, Smith promptly formed his Mission Nurseries & Florists, Inc. He bought out two flower wholesalers on Los Angeles' Wall Street, opened a retail shop nearby. Then he hustled west to Wilshire Boulevard's breezy shopping district to unveil a retail salon (Hollywood for shop). Next he bought 28,000 square feet of greenhouse and opened another retail store in San Gabriel, Calif., added a four-and-a-half-acre nursery plot in the famed San Fernando Valley. Thus...
...Consider the exciting possibilities," beamed Smith, considering them. "Pretty soon we'll be able to drop 5,000 Ibs. of California sweet peas down on the London market 24 hours after picking. Why, Southern California will be the flower basket of the world...