Word: labelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army at first stamped "psychoneurosis" on the discharged man's medical record. When the "pn" label scared off prospective employers, Dr. Will had the policy changed: after February 1945, the record of a man discharged for mental cause carried such whizzbang-medicalese -stunning but relatively harmless-as "conversion reactions," "somatization reactions," "anxiety reactions...
Black Ink. Before a year was out, Kamen, bolstered by the 1933 success of Three Little Pigs, had plastered the Disney label on $10 million worth of manufactured goods. After Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) the business became a landslide. The roster of licensees grew to resemble a bluebook of U.S. big business (it includes Standard Oil, Du Pont, General Mills, Armour meats, Life Savers). In Manhattan, Gimbels sold 2,000 pairs of Mickey Mouse sandals in one day; in Chicago, Marshall Field recently had a $10,000 day on $3 sweaters offering a choice of Mickey Mouse...
...charming French couple, Nissol Aladjem and Hazel Brill, (Smith '50) came off with the grand prix of the evening, a bottle of real champagne and a bottle of real French ("Chanel Five") perfume, according to the anglicized legend on the label...
...Villa-Lobos' U.S. neighbors are getting to know him better. His latest music arrived on Broadway this week in a garishly attractive package-a flamboyant new musical called Magdalena. For want of a better label, Sponsor Homer Curran and Producer Edwin Lester had billed it as "a musical adventure...
...civil rights issue has been presented . . ..by the Dixiecrats ... in a distorted manner," said McGill. "Thousands of rural Southerners believe that, if they vote for Truman, they will be voting for social equality, for intermarriage, for opening their schools, churches and social gatherings to Negroes . . . This party, despite its label, is really the anti-Negro party...