Word: knitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble in Heaven. Into this closely knit little capitalistic heaven, in which everyone worked and worked hard, and in which everyone prospered a little (and some a lot), the war brought a good many changes. The number of industries jumped from 438 in 1937 to about 600, invested capital doubled, and the number of industrial workers rose from 24,350 to about...
They-about 5,000 of them a month -drop in to keep appointments with us, enter subscriptions to our magazines, find out what to see and where to go in New York City. They also come in to browse, snooze, primp, knit, read a good book, rendezvous with friends, or just to get out of the rain. Often enough there isn't a vacant seat left...
...since Pearl Harbor had there been a climate so favorable for throwing off some of the controls, to let economic fractures knit in the open air of free enterprise...
...Gang. Harry Truman's gang is large, loose-knit, amiable and loyal. Some members, like Judge Samuel Rosenman, serve only part time. Others serve as specialists, like David K. Niles, a New-Dealing Bostonian inherited from F.D.R., who advises on problems of minority groups (currently, U.S. Zionists). At least one, Major General Harry Vaughan, holds a kind of honorary membership. Vaughan, who once burbled from the pulpit of an Alexandria, Va. church "I don't know why a minister can't be a regular guy," has one quality which endears him to the President: he is what...
Noting that one Mollie Alpiner, the store's buyer of knit underwear, was as shrewd and diligent a worker as he, Charles Netcher married her in 1891. They had four children (none of the three still living has any interest in the store), but business came first. Once Mrs. Newbury commented: "We talked business just as other people talk love...