Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue Ford and its matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
Slight, dark-haired Mrs. Juanita S. Tucker is postmistress in the tiny hamlet of Christmas, Florida. Each Christmas for the past 15 years, thousands of letters came for postmarking and she lovingly stamped each with a small green Christmas tree cachet and the legend "Glory to God in the Highest." But then the Post Office Department informed her coldly that as a postal employee, she was not allowed by regulations to place "personal or unofficial indorsements" upon mail. Mrs. Tucker was crestfallen. Last week she wrote the Tampa Daily Times...
...Marquot, who inherited the 90-year-old family business last year, is a fairly typical member of Le Centre des Jeunes Patrons (Center of Young Employers), which is trying to build a brighter future for free enterprise in France. The Young Employers are against the predatory capitalism of the past, but they also want to keep France from sliding into the collectivist pitfall. Their answer to the welfare state is to look after their workers' welfare themselves. Their attitude, they say, is partly moral, partly selfish...
...masculine side the company was weaker. At 40, Choreographer-Dancer Robert Helpmann seemed past his prime as a soloist-although as a danseur noble he showed off the sparkling Fonteyn like a diamond ring. Handsome Michael Somes, 32, had had his career interrupted by four years in the British army during...
Actually, for the past month, young Field and "Pete" Akers had been acting as top dogs without benefit of top titles. Field had long fretted that the morning and evening editions of the Sun-Times looked too much alike: there was little reason for anyone to buy both. Now he had started out to make them look as different as possible...