Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, formerly in command of the Fifth Division. His force, complete from infantry to ordnance units, is equipped with everything from Garand semi-automatic rifles to fighter planes, telephone poles to cement mixers. Well-secured against Iceland weather, each of his men has been issued fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes, heavy underclothes and socks in addition to regular work clothes and uniforms. Each soldier also has a pair of skis and snowshoes...
Liquor stores, fur shops, jewelers helped the panic along by advertising the increase in taxes. Their warnings ranged from the bald admonition, "Buy now, before prices go up!" to such come-ons as Jaekel's (furs): "Buy in haste, rejoice at leisure...
Most sensational exhibit was also a Saarinen & Eames invention: a chair cast like a piece of sculpture, from a single piece of laminated plywood. Saarinen & Eames's new chair, carefully molded to fit the human form and cushioned with a covering of sponge-rubber, looked something like a fur-lined bedpan on stilts. But sitters found that it made up in rump-appeal what it lacked in looks...
...half-dreaded goal. As he approached the front door, all Vag's hitherto generalized confusion centered on one specific fear: he had no car . . . would she mind going into Boston on the subway? Of course she would. She had worn an expensive dress at the dance. And a fur wrap too. The dress and the wrap came before his mind's eye in painful detail. Why hadn't he thought of borrowing a car? He was over half an hour late as it was, so maybe she had gone to supper with the other girls, or maybe he had made...
...above last year. As the Eastern gas shortage grew less fearsome, oilmen boosted weekly crude production to 4,004,700 barrels, a new record. Despite disemployment in some sections, the consumer buying orgy continued. July electric range sales jumped 118%, refrigerators 37%, both to new records. Season fur sales rose...