Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers last week, big bold advertisements for mammoth summer clearance sales fought for space with the chichi ads of the new fall fashion collections. Big & little stores everywhere were trying desperately to unload their wartime inventories. They were also trying to prove to their somewhat skeptical customers that current fashions according to the L85 fabric-conservation order are really haute couture...
Thus in 1937 wrote Robert Ralph Young, a financial wizard given to homespun free verse. He had worked hard gathering unto himself the mammoth railroad empire created by Cleveland's famed, buccaneering Van Sweringen brothers, and it seemed about to slip from his hands...
Hail Darwin! Hail Franklin! The second get-together was in the red-and-gold Bolshoi Theater. On the stage, where the academicians sat, a white, heroic-sized bust of Lenin stood on a pedestal underneath a mammoth poster portrait of Stalin. President Komarov's welcoming address (read for him because he was ailing) proposed greetings to Stalin, Molotov, Kalinin, the Red Army, the Red Navy. The conferees enthusiastically sent them...
...Germain school is one of the first G.I. schools to be set up under the Army's mammoth post-V-E education program for servicemen & women temporarily stranded in Europe (TIME, Oct. 16). To keep everybody busy, the program includes every phase of education, from vocational training to graduate courses in universities like Cambridge and the Sorbonne. But unit command schools (established by battalions) like St. Germain's form by far the biggest part of the pro gram. By August i there will be one such school for every 1,000 soldiers. Every soldier who is not assigned...
...Angeles outdid the earlier receptions. But a crowd fully as big as Boston's turned out to cheer California's Patton and Co-Hero Jimmy Doolittle. That night, 100,000 crowded into the Coliseum for a mammoth reception engineered by Hollywood Producer Mervyn...