Word: leans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright was a soldier of the old U.S. Army. A lean, bowlegged cavalryman, he spent his happiest days in the hard-riding, spur and saber atmosphere of the vanishing Army posts of the West. In an age that produced Army men of many talents-generals who could double as diplomats, showmen, orators or businessmen-"Skinny" Wainwright, a fine horseman,* a crack shot and an all-round good officer, was never anything but a soldier. He had no conspicuous hobbies, outstanding social virtues or noteworthy vices. But his men believed in him, and they followed him to the limit...
...paneled Paris office overlooking the Etoile last week sat a grey-haired, lean and elegant Frenchman, chain-smoking Havana cigars. In his buttonhole, Pierre Wertheimer, 65, wore the emblem of the Legion of Honor; on his glass-topped desk stood row after row of perfume bottles and boxes of cosmetics. They, too, were emblems of achievement. For Pierre Wertheimer, a man so shy that few have ever heard of him (he permits no photographs), is the world's perfume king. He owns the Bourjois and Chanel companies, bosses 3,000 employees in plants from Rochester, N.Y. to London, sells...
...Lean Butter. To recapture some of the butter market lost to margarine, a group of officials of the Iowa Department of Agriculture will soon begin selling a butter called Dairy Spread, which is made of non-fat dry milk and 58% butter fat (v. 80% and more in regulation butter). The spread will be marketed by Dairy Foods Co., a Nashua, law firm set up by the Agriculture men. Price: about 20? a lb. cheaper than ordinary butter...
Died. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, lean, hard-bitten hero of Bataan and Corregidor during the darkest days of the war in the Pacific; of a stroke; in San Antonio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Across the narrow seas, Britain's urban millions still bought half their food overseas. Yet austerity, the hated catchword of seven lean years (1945-52), is all but disappearing. Britons once again are eating roasts (and carrots) for Sunday dinner. Tea was de-rationed last October; candy, eggs and cream followed this summer. Sugar will be freed next month, and after Aug. 29, bakers will be able to sell white bread for the first time since...