Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME consistently supplied the best background for the camp information center I established, and for the numerous lectures I delivered. I cut out many articles of particular interest to me and brought them home for fur, ther study. TIME'S "synoptical" arrangement, world-wide news content, clever commentaries and ingenious style; the outstanding biographies...
...would say when he joined the Democratic Party, although in the Aug. 13 primary he had defeated the conservative Democratic incumbent, Thaddeus Wasielewski, for the nomination in Milwaukee's 4th District. Bobrowicz, a blond war veteran of 27, and an official of the C.I.O.'s Redlined Fur and Leather Workers' Union, denied the Communism charge. He had had the support of open and avowed Communists and the P.A.C...
California's dressmakers whooped it up for their new fashions. (Items: a baby blue fur coat, a $50 hand-painted bathing suit, a girdle decorated with cherubs lolling on clouds.) Cole of California readied an aquacade, Catalina Mills had a Catalina Island beach show, Tabak of California was going to parade his models on the rim of the Grand Canyon...
...Fur Brigade. Among the first was Cornelius Krieghoff, adventuring son of a Dutch wallpaper manufacturer, who fought for the U.S. in the Indian wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson...
...quiet George L. Russell Jr., current up-from-the-ranks president, foresees some trying days ahead. The price of fur, the principal raw material, has almost doubled since the war began. To pay for and operate Mallory, Stetson has to borrow $2,500,000. Nevertheless, convinced that many of the world's heads are still uncovered, Stetson expects that its new investment will keep it in the black...