Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GRAY Ottawa...
...Readers Boone and Gray get off their old grey mares. "On the Bill Daly" is older, better known and more widely used; "on the Duffy" means exactly the same thing. Nevertheless, TIME erred in quoting the phrase from a news story; Trainer Smith's actual instructions to Jockey Guerin were more practical than picturesque: "Go right to the front-try to get a breakaway at the gate, and nurse him all the way along...
Advice to the Victim. On the way to Japan, on the U.S. Education Mission, Stoddard kept insisting to his colleagues that the Emperor ought to be hanged or at least jailed. But in Tokyo, he found himself recommending to his unsuspecting "victim" the right U.S. woman tutor (Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining) for the Crown Prince. And he also helped draft democratic reforms for Japanese education: popularly elected school boards, a simplified alphabet,wider public schooling...
Surplus Cotton. But the production of "gray goods" (unbleached cottons) has already run ahead of the export demand. Now, with 120 million yards of gray goods on its hands, U.S.C.C. has had to turn to U.S. textile mills for help. Last month, it asked U.S. exporters to buy the cloth and finish it in U.S. mills for export. But with the sellers' market about gone in cotton goods, U.S. textilemen are protesting against the finishing of cloth that may soon be in competition with their own products...
Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price...