Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's huge Gimbels department store had big news and bought big ads to tell it: GIMBELS HAS NYLONS. Gimbels had 26,000 pairs-a tantalizing drop in the bucket in the face of the public's raging thirst. So, said Gimbels' ad: "Don't think we want to run this advertisement. . . . Come if you must. [But] we've taken this large space to point out how uncomfortable you will...
Food was so scarce and drab that a frozen apple rated as a rare delicacy. Millions were still living in dugouts, tents, even the fuselages of grounded airplanes. The huge collective farms were crippled by lack of machinery. The Germans had carried off 190,000 of Russia's 700,000 tractors and combines. Not until 1950 will tractor production catch...
...independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...
Like its competitors, the News Chronicle of 1946 is still on a four-page austerity diet. Like them, it has gained in readability from the newsprint shortage that forced British editors to sharpen their pencils and their wits. Less flamboyant than Lord Beaverbrook's huge (circ. 3,376,000), shrieking Daily Express, far livelier than Lord Camrose's Daily Telegraph, the News Chronicle puts a higher value on good writing than on scoops. At its best, the News Chronicle has some of the calm balance and Olympian clarity of that staid old thunderer, the Times (circ...
...talking pictures (Rasputin and the Empress in 1932, None but the Lonely Heart in 1944). She spends most of this one propped up in bed. Alternately purring and bellowing in a voice not unlike Brother Lionel's, she is superbly effective as the ailing, aging mistress of a huge plush-and-black-walnut New England mansion. A gay-dog only son and a sobersided professor-stepson (George Brent) make their home with her. Residents and visitors in her house include such odd or frightened people as a cook (Elsa Lanchester), a trained nurse (Sara Allgood), and a strangely inhibited...