Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snowstorm. At the flag-decked Kursk Station, a Red Army Guard of Honor stood at attention. A Red Army band played the La Marseillaise and the Soviet Hymn. Down 100 yards of red carpet marched People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Viacheslav Molotov and a reception committee of fur-coated, fur-hatted, felt-booted Russian and Allied dignitaries...
...five minutes De Gaulle kept them waiting. Then, muffled in a fur-lined khaki greatcoat and red cap, he detrained, saluted, shook hands with beaming Commissar Molotov. While Soviet newsphotographers cranked their cameras, General de Gaulle spoke into a microphone: "On behalf of the people of France, I pay homage to the gallant people of the Soviet Union." Then, his long nose and ears blue with cold, he sped to the Foreign Office's guest house...
Following the 1943 boom and the tax-inspired buying of last spring, sales of fur coats are off sharply all over the U.S., currently running about 15% below 1943. Response to the annual August fur promotions was sluggish; and in all parts of the country, volume continued to lag in September and October...
Retailers hope that the warm autumn weather is to blame. But when cold weather strikes, the fur industry fears that its suspicion may be confirmed: that U.S. women are beginning to clutch their money a little tighter-that the boom is over...
...Canadian to serve outside of Canada. Now he had summoned his Cabinet to hear Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, just back from overseas. The Canadian casualty toll, 61,295 in September, was up more than 10,000 since Aug. 1. Since then, the Canadian infantry in France had suffered fur ther heavy losses. The question before the Cabinet: were there enough reinforcements to support the Canadian Army abroad adequately, or had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees - some 70,000 zombies idling at home - to battle overseas? The man on whom the final answer rested...