Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Growing Pains. The airlines' early passengers were a hardy lot. Bundled in leather flying suits and fur-lined helmets, they rode singly in open de Havilland4 cockpits atop piles of mail sacks, or cramped side by side in a cubbyhole in front of the pilot of the Boeing...
...road crossing where one road branched off toward Seoul, a fur-hatted old man stood alone. The Communists had gone that way the night before, he said, pointing toward Seoul. Behind him, the street was deserted except for a few twittering women stealing rice from...
...during an era that launched such merchant tycoons as John Wanamaker, Louis Bamberger, Marshall Field and David May, Cleveland's Samuel Halle and his brother Salmon put $10,000 into a modest fur store specializing in sealskin caps. A dozen expansions have built Halle Brothers Co. into a $39 million-a-year business, and left 82-year-old Samuel Halle the last survivor of the big-name U.S. department-store pioneers. Last week key employees surprised spry Co-Founder Halle with a 60th anniversary luncheon and the gift of a leather desk set -which he can use daily...
...Canada's top field commander in World War II. Tory Leader George Drew called it "the best appointment this government has made in months." Said the Montreal Gazette's Arthur Blakeley: "General Simonds is no soldier-politician. He doesn't understand the art of pussyfooting ... The fur (and dust) can be expected...
...will take fur-flying action to instill the ginger and combat spirit that troops need at a time when the Princess Pats are moving into their first Korean action (see WAR IN ASIA), and plans are under way to fit some 6,000 Canadian soldiers into U.S. formations under General Eisenhower's command in Germany. Simonds must also continue to speed up the recruiting drive and put some spark into the halfhearted reserve program...