Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to life. Bare walls suddenly had pictures; windows had bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
...bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some things, but will gladly dress themselves up as toy dolls, rabbits or gypsies for annual Tree Day. They are fearful of seeming too girlish, but will happily make themselves look aged 13 running their annual hoop race. Wealthy girls pretend to be living on a shoestring; grinds pretend to be ladies of leisure. To be fashionable, one must be casual...
...levels for months. But it was not till last week that two congressional committees brought the talk down to earth. From spokesmen for U.S. business, which was expected to supply the know-how and capital for the program, the committees got some plain talk on what was needed to make the program work...
...Although the U.S. is now glutted with eggs, thanks to the farm support program (TIME, Oct. 3), widespread use of hybrids like the Hy-Lines might solve that problem eventually. Hybrids could enable farmers to produce so cheaply, says Wallace, that they could accept much lower prices and still make a profit. Not all customers who have bought hybrids like them. Some say that the birds are too jittery. Furthermore, hybrid eggs might not be preferred in every market: a light cream color, the eggs are too dark for New Yorkers who like white eggs and too light for Bostonians...
...women's shoe business last summer, Thomas Callahan had his son design some new flat-heeled models. Callahan, who leases the "debutante" shoe department in Manhattan's Bonwit Teller, Inc., got Philadelphia's Cellini Shoes, Inc. to make the shoes, plugged them in the Sunday New York Times. In two weeks, mail orders came in from every state in the union-except Montana. Mystified, Callahan ran the same ad in the New York Herald Tribune. Again the orders poured in; still no sales in Montana, which calls itself the "Bonanza State...