Word: gar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Probably you have never heard of the small town of Garça in the interior of the state of São Paulo, twelve hours by train from the city of São Paulo. The chances are that you would have continued not to be any the wiser, if I had not noticed today that TIME for Feb. 19, with the picture of Charles E. Wilson on the cover, was for sale there in a small bookstall. "The irony is that the owner of the bookstall is a registered Communist, but when it comes to business...
Four blocks from the White House, on the corner of 14th and F Streets, stands the nine-story building of Julius Garfinckel & Co. It is Washington's answer to the oft-repeated charge that the nation's capital is a town of dowdy women. In Gar-nnckel's show windows are strapless pink tulles by Dior, tobacco-colored satins by Path and organdies by Adrian. Last week Garfinckel's added another famed trademark to its collection: a crest with a lion rampant and a Pegasus, and the motto "Our words and deeds agree." It bought control...