Word: like
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still looked like a peculiar kind of recession...
...handsome William Henry Joyce Jr., 49, is taking no chances. For the past month, he has been skittering around Europe building his business. Last week, fast-moving Bill Joyce flew into London from Paris, announced that he was completing a deal to introduce Joyce shoes in France this fall. Like other foreign licensees, the French company will make the shoes according to Joyce specifications, pay a percentage on every pair sold...
Since Gehring never grows mint on one field more than two years in a row, he is still a big potato grower-in fact, Indiana's biggest. His potato crop this year will gross an estimated $700,000. All told, his 5,800-acre farm, run like a factory, is a big business, with an annual payroll of $250,000, 350 workers, two $35,000 mint distilleries, 54 tractors and 150 buses, trucks, jeeps and other engines that weekly burn, in peak season, over 9,000 gallons of gasoline...
...kind of squeeze to worry about-the synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...
...Like bartenders and bus drivers, movie theater ushers occasionally have their troubles with the bothersome fringe of humanity. But they do not lack for sound advice. The cinema trade organ Boxoffice has culled a few helpful hints for ushers from a manual prepared in Ohio by Warner Bros, for its theaters. Examples...