Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...socialist intellectual. One of the founders of the cooperative movement, Barnes is more the old-style labor leader. Cripps's closest friend and adviser is 46-year-old George Strauss, tall and swarthy Minister of Supply. Like Cripps, he is an upper-class leftist. Son of a wealthy metal merchant, Strauss was one of the faithful few who were expelled from the Labor-Party along with Cripps over the Popular Front issue...
...reports to small-fry customers last week. Now at the peak of its pre-Christmas hustle, the toy industry is shipping a greater variety of playthings than it has turned out since 1941. On retail toy shelves there is many an eye-catching new number, and rubber and metal toys not seen in any quantity in five years. The bad news is that prices are higher (about 10%) and the supply of some items, such as electric trains and dolls, is far short of demand. (One big store estimated that it would run out of trains by Thanksgiving...
...this "liquid dispenser," which--with malice toward none--is called "The Wellesley," the cubes are placed in a metal cylinder. The cylinder fits into a healthy one-and-a-half gallon container. And around the container fits an insulated...
...illegible. The papers used phrases unknown in the 18th Century ("frontire spirit," "race hatred"). Horn's ancestors showed themselves ignorant of the Julian calendar, which was universally used in their day. Horn's maps and court dockets bore a 19th Century watermark and were written with a metal pen and in blue-black ink, unknown until 1836. The documents had been "aged," said the committee, probably with ammonia. As for the lead marker plates, the expedition's director admitted that Horn had found them himself, when the director was away. They, too, were fakes: metallurgists said...
Spectacular Frames. New aluminum spectacle frames were put on sale by Manhattan's Tura Co. The new frames (trade name: Turalite) are slightly lighter than thick plastic ones, need no rivets, solder or cement, and are virtually unbreakable. They come in twelve colors impregnated in the metal. Present production: 8,000 a week. Price...