Word: linens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army, waving aside all advice, had stubbornly insisted on buying the Stevens. Cost: $6,000,000 (its original cost in 1927: $28,000,000). Then, in a fabulous five-day sale, the Army had auctioned off almost all the internal fixings of the Stevens-pots, pans, bowling alleys, beds, linen and spittoons (TIME, March 29). Realized from the sale: almost $600,000 (replacement value: over $2,000,000). The auction came just 90 days before the Army decided to sell the Stevens. Yet for only $3,000 a month in storage charges the Army could have held...
Stangest part of the time we've spent here (and that seems to be unanimous) was the period between Friday and Tuesday morning. We relaxed. We drew bed linen. We sang songs over at the student club. We sang songs over at the student club. We relaxed. We drew case books. We asked the senior class of midshipmen about the case books. Then our relaxation was over. They only laughed...
Work on the building, a former private home, was begun early in March, and with the help of a group of Cambridge women and faculty wives who canvassed homes, the house has now been furnished to a practical point of occupancy, although tenants must being their own linen...
...many other possibilities. The stalk contains 10-20% of a fiber that is superior to cotton and linen intensile strength, second only to Manila hemp. In addition, milkweed seed contains 21% of a semi-drying oil almost identical with soybean oil, and the oil-free seed cake is a valuable livestock feed with 40% protein content...
...state of the nation's trade. In one day 2,841 buyers stormed the New York Furniture Exchange, more than at any other time in its 52-year history and 1,000 above last year's registration. The combined New York Curtain & Drapery and National Domestics & Linen Shows hung up a new record with 575 buyers pawing for goods regardless of prices. Sixth Avenue manufacturers reported spring dress, suit and coat orders up 40-200%, talked darkly of allocating production to cut down order-padding. One excited OPA economist predicted to the Millinery Merchandising Executives' Association that...