Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the bank statement came in each month, he made a few changes, removed the forged, unnumbered checks as if they had never existed. His records seemed invariably in order, and the board thought, not entirely without reason, that good old "Casey" Stengle was the very model of efficiency...
...kept the company in the air, but it was shaky flying. Cessna had only $3.97 in the bank when it got the first World War II order for its T-50 trainer, went on to produce 5>359 by war's end. Beech, with a bigger, six-passenger Model 18 transport-trainer, made 7,400 units and millions in profits from every branch of the armed forces. With peace both companies faced some agonizing reappraisals. Beech wanted to merge with Cessna. Dwane Wallace refused, doggedly set about finding civilian markets once it became crystal-clear that...
...settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical; it is also the vehicle that launched France's newest singing star, Colette Renard, 28, a onetime Montmartre artist's model...
...Senate Office Building, where the Senate's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee was investigating auto prices (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) , G.M.'s President Harlow Curtice was drawn into the argument as he explained why the 1958 Chevy is better than the model of ten years ago. It weighs 324 lbs. more, is almost a foot longer and five inches wider. Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney interrupted: "You say it is a better car because it is longer, wider and heavier. Have you received any complaints from people who believe these things are disadvantages? Do you think...
...crystal-chandeliered salon, the press was dead silent as the first model swirled in, wearing a sprig of Dior's favorite flower, lily of the valley, on her suit. But as the third model sashayed out, sudden applause for the new Dior line crashed through the cream-and-gilt rooms. It kept up for two more hours and 175 more models. Cries of "bravo, bravo!" broke out at the finale, a model marching by in a bridal gown. When Saint-Laurent himself appeared, mothered by his two weeping associates, Mme. Raymonde and Mme. Marguerite, the blushing youth was mobbed...