Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rout of the old-line parties in Saskatchewan, the province had been the CCF's show window. On display were a batch of socialist schemes: government insurance policies, socialized shoe and brick factories, a government-owned woolen mill. Government marketing boards kept close tabs on timber, fur and fish, regulated prices and methods of sale...
With that, the Communist machinery swung into action. The Committee for Democratic Rights, which has among its sponsors Communist Ben Gold, leader of the C.I.O. fur workers, and New York's Communist Councilman Benjamin J. Davis Jr., announced a march on Washington. It was joined by the National Non-Partisan Delegation to Washington, an outfit which had planned a demonstration to demand anti-lynching legislation...
...first thing I want to do is take a trip to Mexico. He'll have to buy me a toy fox terrier, one that weighs less than two pounds. I love the things." She fingered the borrowed pearls on her chic black dress, tugged at the borrowed fur coat she was wearing...
...Fur Coat. The following day the job went to Wong. Nanking was startled. But, after chewing over the record of tiny, chain-smoking Geologist Wong, Chinese nodded their heads. The new Premier was transcendentally honest-in his first 20 years of public service he had never even owjied a fur coat. When, finally, he had bought a sheepskin one (with cat's-fur collar), he had kept it only two days, then given it to his father. And he was an able administrator...
...Clothes. First as president, later as board chairman, he put his laboratory men to work finding new uses for old Monsanto products (example: the detergent Santomerse, developed to make water "wetter," was found to be useful for leather and fur processing, railroad car cleaning and bubble baths). He also spent heavily on basic research. Result: Monsanto today makes 14 different raw materials for plastics, leads the world in production of lampblack and elemental phosphorus, turns out some 500 chemicals that other companies use in 20,000 different industrial processes...