Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shirtmaker had some missing measurements coming to him. Unaware of the demands of true haute couture, the barrelly Briton had left only his neck-size (17½) and inside sleeve-length (20 from armpit to cuff). Cabled the shirtmaker: "Please send one old shirt for use as a model." He could scarcely do a proper job, he explained, without the outside sleeve-length, chest and waist measurements...
...pitchers' pen, the Yankees had only one good prewar model, big Spud Chandler, who could be counted on for heavy duty. But just when three ambitious rivals thought they had uncovered the Yankees' soft spot, the Yanks suddenly uncovered two whizzbang rookies- string-bean (6 ft. 2½) Clarence Marshall and deadpan Randy Gumpert -in spring training...
...seems to me that when a girl realizes she has a gorgeous figure she figures she doesn't have to fool around with higher figures. When a girl is beautiful she either marries, goes into show business or becomes a model. She doesn't go to college...
...Said he: British automakers, "intending to go back to 1939 instead of going ahead to 1950," have done little to improve methods used before the war, when the U.S., with only twice as many workers, turned out 15 times as many cars. Compared with more powerful, lower-priced U.S. models, said Member Shawcross, the smallest current British model is "a joke, a glorified, expensive...
...start in the race for postwar world markets. Early this year they even managed to ship a driblet of cars into the U.S. itself. But, with reconversion nearly complete, the British were now waking up to the fact that their auto production system was not up to the American model...