Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the automobile license fee was upped to $50 U.S. monthly, more than 9,000 automobiles have vanished from the streets; gasoline is $3 U.S. a gallon. In Shanghai's curio bazaar, where foreign visitors used to throng, merchants slump disconsolately beside their stalls or aimlessly play Chinese checkers. In once-thriving jewelry stores on Nanking Road, where intricately wrought gold ornaments and glistening jade once brought handsome prices, merchants have turned to selling soap, DDT, medicines, towels and underwear. Of 136 factories that formerly made headily scented cosmetics, only 30 are in operation, and they are engaged exclusively...
Having made her debut in a German film, Rosemary Murphy, 22, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Robert D. Murphy, went to work in a Berlin play...
Cinema columnists duly reported the state of Elizabeth's wonder, followed the romance play by play. Glenn gave her his gold football, his All-America sweater and finally, Elizabeth said, his troth, effective in three years, some time after his tour of duty in the Orient...
...Triple Play. The Italian venture is the most spectacular example of Coca-Cola's profitable global expansion. With more than 370 bottlers operating outside the U.S. at present, the company intends to triple that number within five years...
This novel was published in England last June as Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, a title that the U.S. publishers discarded as overlong and over-likely to suggest a book for juveniles. U.S. readers may nevertheless bear it in mind, for the book can be taken as an engraved invitation to a whole class of career intellectuals to break out of their nurseries. It is a civilized and at times a sardonically funny satirical novel...