Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, back from a trip around the East, had discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
...Wages must be frozen (but not reduced). Otherwise industry may be forced to lay off workers...
...Land). The home would be a three-room bungalow with a tin corrugated roof. Ruth's arrival caused considerable commotion among the tribe (local traders were doing a brisk business in gaily colored prints, since the tribeswomen wished to live and dress up to the occasion). Actually, it may be months before Seretse's 100,000 tribesmen know whether or not they will have a white queen: the British government is holding an inquiry to determine whether or not Seretse had been legally chosen chief...
...swimmer of them all,* had there been such heavy human traffic in the choppy waters between Dover and Cap Gris Nez. Everyone seemed to want to swim the Channel. Last week a clothing salesman from Cuba and a Dutch housewife tried, both for the second time, and failed. Shirley May France of Massachusetts (TIME, Aug. 8) still hesitated before making the big plunge. In this crowd of fame-seekers, a short, stocky Yorkshire schoolboy named Philip Mick-man went almost unnoticed. But last week, 18-year-old Philip beat his rivals...
...softening Britain's youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home town in Yorkshire, prepared a big celebration. But his schoolmaster predicted that fame would not go to Philip's head: "He's a sound lad." Although Philip had stolen her thunder, Shirley May prettily congratulated...