Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ministry decree, and city prices, created a blooming black market. By last week flower prices in London were: tulips, $6 a dozen; carnations, $8 a dozen up; violets, once 10? a bunch, now 60?; daffodils up to $2.50 a small bunch. A pussywillow, once given free to a good buyer, now costs...
...breaking the law, but giving it a neat trim, is a new bicycle express supplying the lush London market. Pedaling between Penzance and London, cyclists leave Cornwall and cycle 120 miles, hand their flower load to another team, which covers the next 120 miles; a third team pumps the remaining 65 miles to London. The cyclists' reported individual earnings: $80 a week...
...British flower farmers have dug up their precious flower bulbs and have planted root crops-swedes, turnips, mangel-wurzels, oats and onions. But some fields still blaze with flowers, and black marketers from the city offer high prices. Snorted one Cornish farmer: "Maybe there were a few who took the chance of making an easy pound when it was offered to them, but the rest of us sold nothing to them 'foreigners...
...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...
Sample "Cultural Arts" course required of air hostesses: "C.A. 69. Practical esthetics. A course for young women who expect to do office work . . . emphasizing the importance of personal grooming, correct speech (voice and diction), and also flower arrangement as an integral part of the office setting...