Word: linens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blazing hot day in July 1861, a little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington, D.C. on to the territory of a newly proclaimed nation, the Confederate States of America. He joined the crush of junketing Congressmen, society ladies in carriages and pleasure seekers who had jaunted out to see the Union Army trounce General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's Confederates at Bull Run. The little man in the linen duster was Mathew Brady, a popular portrait photographer of Washington...
...director will take orders from them and have no more than administrative power. To that job Harry Truman named quiet, 53-year-old Rear Admiral Sidney William Souers (rhymes with flowers), Naval Reservist, onetime Missouri businessman (life insurance, linen service, real estate, Piggly-Wiggly stores). Harry Truman knew him as an old friend. Businesslike Admiral Souers, who has had more active duty than most Reservists, is one of the few men to achieve flag rank without going to sea. For eight years he served as Senior Intelligence Officer in St. Louis. His latest Navy job: deputy chief of Naval Intelligence...
...price increases to coax the quick production of more consumers' goods, chiefly low-priced articles. Shoe manufacturers were granted a wholesale price boost of 42%, cheap furniture makers 7-13%, radio makers 10-15%, makers of lawn mowers 17%. On some cotton goods such as bedspreads and table linen, price boosts ran from as much as 20% to 40%. Before long, OPA expects to give sizable price increases also to makers of electrical appliances and household articles...
...most Nürnbergers were simply concerned with finding food and shelter and warmth in the soggy, smelly ruins of their city. Enviously they looked at the Grand Hotel (requisitioned for the trial staff) which was well heated, served plenty of food on fabulously clean linen, and had a bar, dancing, and a floor show...
Having read your letter published today [TIME, Nov. 12] to us subscribers, I certainly do want to join you in every good wish to Jim Linen in his new job. I also want to extend congratulations to TIME for regaining the services of one of the ablest men I have ever known-and one of the nicest...