Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow the winter snow had vanished. Street vendors were selling daffodils at 3 rubles each. Gourmets could buy tiny hothouse cucumbers, small succulent leaves of early lettuce, tiny radishes and tomatoes. Women discarded fur hats and thick wool shawls for bright head scarves. The sun came out. The Russian Pashka (Easter, a week later on the Julian calendar) had arrived in Moscow...
...warning from their own N.A.M. that they are charging too much, business men have been well warned of future dangers. For concrete examples of what sudden slump would mean, they have samples in the sharp cut of restaurant and night club activity last fall, the spectacle of full-scale fur sales in December, the desperate attempt of liquor companies to head off a price war when liquor sales took a nose dive. These are piecemeal readjustments, the wholesale collapse of an over-expanded price structure would be much worse if for no other reason than its immensity...
Another $100,000 fell between two plump divorcees named Mary Markovich and Anna Osojnak while they labored in a Manhattan automat. Straightway, they began to weep and dream of freedom and fur coats...
Unmolested and unescorted, the correspondents put on spectacular fur caps and roamed Moscow's streets, much like happy tourists in any country. A special ticket agency secured them the best seats at the ballet, opera and circus. Limousines were made available. When the Newark Evening News's Henry Suydam had eye trouble, two Russian women doctors attended him. Next morning came a phone call: "How is your feeling...
...blowsy 20s, the onetime "It" Girl regained the spotlight as a result of another woman's triumph. A listener who managed to identify Clara's voice in a radio contest won $17,590 in prizes (including an airplane, a refrigerator, an automobile, a furnace, a fur coat, maid service for a year...