Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington to protest the "armaments race," to demand that the U.S. recognize Communist China and get out of Korea. Among the sponsors were the same tired names the Communists use over & over, in slightly different combinations, for all their fronts: Singer Paul Robeson; Ben Gold, president of the International Fur Workers; Author Howard Fast (see below); Artist Rockwell Kent. There was one other useful name and a distinguished one: Author Thomas Mann...
...Washington largely by the haters of Chiang's Kuomintang government; that no one who warned of the threat of Asiatic Communism was listened to in Washington ; that right up to the invasion of Korea by Communist Chinese, Acheson's State Department continued hopefully to stroke the fur of the Red leader, Mao Tse-tung...
...parade." The men in General Wu's group all sported new Fifth Avenue suits. Miss Kung Pu-sheng, third in the delegation's rank, wore two orchids on her mouton coat. Miss Chou Yen, probably No. 8 in the group, rated only one orchid on the worn fur coat she had brought from Peking. Newsmen asked who gave them the flowers. The women answered: "Does it matter? Is it vital...
...docks in Southampton, England, patient photographers finally got the shot they were waiting for: Marlene Dietrich in fur-lined coat and galoshes, daintily sloshing through ankle-deep snow on her way to board the Queen Elizabeth for Christmas in Manhattan...
...Dynel will be to wool what nylon is to silk." With this glowing sendoff Joseph G. Davidson, president of the Chemicals Division of Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., last week showed off blankets, socks, draperies, knit goods and imitation fur made of the newest synthetic creation of Union Carbide (manufacturers of Bakelite, Prestone, Vinylite...