Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city better seen at night. Then it had mystery, beauty and grandeur-a mammoth black patchwork, spotted with the pink blossoms of the Bessemers, hung with lights stretching out between the pale river highways, the Ohio, the Allegheny and the Monongahela. In the daytime it emerged in all its sprawling ugliness...
...Marshal's austere appearance in pictures may have deceived even sharp-eyed Tailor &Cutter. "His well-known tunic," wrote Wendell Willkie in One World, "is of finely woven material, and is apt to be a soft green or a delicate pink; his trousers a light tannish yellow or blue...
Since the war, although his works have been performed as widely as ever, Allied alien-property custodians have held most of the profits (estimated, in British and U.S. royalties alone, at more than $460,000). Two years ago, pink and erect, Richard Strauss journeyed to London to earn some money conducting (he never had to yield to any man as a Mozart conductor). In London he told inquiring friends: "The last time I conduct." What were his plans? Said Strauss...
...Pink-cheeked Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer last week crawled tentatively out on a limb. Said he: "The end of the recession may be at hand." Sad-faced old Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, was not ready to go quite that far. He was "very definitely encouraged," though he did not think that "disinflation" was ended...
...glad . . .") and coined the label "Ivory Soap." In 1890, Kodak launched one of the first relentlessly successful slogans: "You press the button-we do the rest." As other manufacturers ventured into advertising's strange new land, a blaze of new slogans followed: "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous," "Pink Pills for Pale People," "Do You Wear Pants?" Slogans temporarily gave way to jingles, alarming forerunners of the singing commercial. Illustrations (the manufacturer's face, Indians, prominent public figures, including President James A. Garfield) were used wildly and sometimes weirdly to catch the customer's eye. Then destiny...