Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British parents sent children to the U.S. for wartime safekeeping without serious qualms-many a troubled family wondered if their pink-cheeked tot could readjust to life in Milwaukee, Wis. or Kennebunk, Me. Last week, as 69 young British war refugees started home again, some of their U.S. foster parents wondered how England would readjust to them. It seemed obvious that some changes would be made when the Empire's small fry got back...
Wearing a bouffant off-shoulder gown of pink net, pink gloves trimmed with silver, and a silver-and-rhinestone butterfly, Betty Tyson received more than 600 guests, including Navy Secretary and Mrs. James Forrestal, Lieut. Commander and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jim Farley and daughter...
...company got a new president, stocky, pink-jowled Edwin Dagobert Bransome. No engineer, Bransome pulled the company out of a financial hole. It promptly earned a profit of $152,000, Vanadium's first in six years. By 1944 Bransome was able to report to his stock holders that Vanadium had cleared $459,00 on gross sales of $16 million...
Austere and rigorously decorous, a group of Argentine generals and admirals strode into Buenos Aires pink and peeling Government House. On the desk of horse-loving, horse-faced President Edelmiro Farrell they plunked down a memorandum. Its message: they approved Farrell's promise to hold free elections; they opposed the efforts of Juan Domingo Perón (Vice President, War Minister and Labor Secretary) to get himself elected President ("We disapprove of proselytizing ... by those holding public office...
Into the Drake's pink Walton Room trooped 90 glowing Chicago Tribune men and their ladies. At an estimated $50 a head-for food, drink and a $3,200 silver service-they came to honor the boss, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Two days later at the Palmer House, some 1,500 carefully selected citizens (including ten Negroes) gathered for speeches praising McCormick, a speech by McCormick and a free meal...