Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public Notices column would floor even the most over-confident advertising man. There you can find your choice of a "brand-new bathtub for $45"; a "120 Bass M. Hohner accordion with a double octave bar"; "two pairs of 9 short nylons for 9½ mediums"; "four well-bred grey-striped kittens"; a part-time maid, or a fervent plea for a hard-to-get copy of Tubbs Analytics...
...plain-shoutin' little man was Fiorello LaGuardia, ex-mayor of New York, now head of UNRRA, who had swooped into North Dakota, wearing a pearl-grey sombrero. Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson, wearing a tie painted with pink and yellow apples, was with him-at LaGuardia's urgent request. For two days they had scurried across Red River Valley, looking for wheat for UNRRA...
Next day the delegates drove along boulevards, where ill-fed Parisiennes in gay print frocks strolled beneath the blooming chestnuts, and swung through the faded green wooden gates into the courtyard of the Luxembourg Palace. A black, bullet-proof Cadillac yielded a grey, tired-looking Molotov. As the courtyard clock struck 4, an oldfashioned, boxlike Daimler arrived. Red-faced, breathing heavily, Ernie Bevin half ran up the steps as if afraid he would be late...
...grand showcase of the Arden beauty empire at 691 Fifth Avenue is guarded by a grey-liveried doorman and a red door marked simply, Elizabeth Arden. Inside, and scattered over a labyrinth of seven floors, is the amazing factory where ladies (from 2½ years to 84) go to get remodeled. The raw product is examined, diagnosed and then put on the Arden production line...
...third, and will rise another $167 million this year. Wages, boosted 16? an hour last week for the roads' 1,300,000 workers, have increased almost 48% since Pearl Harbor. Without the rate increase, the roads said, they could not buy new equipment, like the vermilion-and-grey streamlined Pacemaker freight train (with panel smoke deflectors on the locomotive) which the New York Central is starting between New York and Niagara Falls. Nor could they avoid a loss this year...