Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans have been maneuvered apart . . . We can no longer watch silently and passively developments that would lead to further splitting of Germany." The guest of honor was 76-year-old, grey-haired former (1933-34) German ambassador to Moscow, Rudolf Nadolny, otherwise (and accurately) known as Germany's "Pink eminence...
During the week 640 pleasure-bent visitors arrived from New York aboard the luxury liner Queen of Bermuda, 1,323 more came in by Pan American clipper and other airliners. Confident that 60,000 tourists would flock this year to their shops and hotels, their pink beaches and hibiscus-hedged lanes, a few Bermudians had even given hotel prices another boost as the spring season opened...
...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
Some of them were soldiers and were wearing breastplates, and some were peasants and were wearing patched-up pillowcases. All of them were wearing pink tights. These worked very well; we simply put them on over our bare legs and pulled them very tight, and they looked just like bare legs...
...Pink of Condition. In 1949, the network that Juan Trippe built is one of the healthiest in the industry. Last week, releasing its 1948 financial report, Pan American estimated its net income at $4,590,000 (nearly 50% above its 1947 net), on $145,216,000 worth of business, including $32 million in mail...