Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pace, W. A.; Parrott, L. M., Jr.; Peabody, J. G.; Peterkin, J. E.; Pettingell, W. H.; Pierce, J. B., Jr.; Pink, J. W., Jr.; Purdy, E. R. Pyle...
...bomb-blasted Malta last week, beefy, pink-faced Lieut. Gen. Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, gave his farewell message to the people. The 63-year-old Governor and Commander in Chief of Malta, who had survived nearly 2,300 Axis air attacks, was going home to England for a rest...
Hindside Foremost. Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...
Into Washington last week strode a big, pink, chub-cheeked Michigan Swede -Wendell Lund, of Escanaba -6 ft. 1 in., 200 lb., 36, and unknown. His new boss, WPB Chief Donald Nelson, had to be introduced to him. Washington turned a blank face. But none of this fazed Mr. Lund. He had arrived to take over the Labor Production Division of the War Production Board, to become one of the nine people who will mobilize U.S. manpower for total...
Purp was a pre-Pearl Harbor invention of Don Nelson's, aimed at the mountain of paper work (see p. 80) that a war manufacturer has to go through to get separate priorities for dozens of separate materials and purposes. On huge, bright pink Purp blanks, a manufacturer can list all his material needs for all purposes for the coming quarter, get priorities clearance on the whole smear at once. If his needs change during the quarter, he can fill out similar yellow blanks for "interim assistance." Small firms (gross business under $100,000 a year...