Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scholl's corn pads . . . President Roosevelt, 8 x 10 . . . floor polish . . . screw drivers . . . garters . . . Melorol Mammoth Tulip Sundae . . . Flit . . . feathers . . . razor blades . . . Lucky Sapphire Birthday Brooches...
...comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler's limp that never left him. When he began peddling stove polish of his own manufacture, he made more money, soon owned a tailor shop, a grocery store, became a wholesaler for household goods, made a small fortune speculating in foodstuffs during the Civil War, a larger one importing petticoat lace from Switzerland. Needing little prompting, his sons, assured by their father...
From this point Ivan's adventures are placed against the background of the War and Revolution-a chronicle which carries Ivan luckily through the slaughter of the Russians on the Polish front, many a hazardous undertaking of the Communist Party, a turbulent love life, closes during the last days of the Russian Civil War, when Ivan made a fatal error of judgment because he forgot momentarily that "in revolution there is no place for sentiment or sorrow or heart hollowness-no place at all for love...
...peevish interchange of inconsequent bombardments. The great Leftist offensive launched "to raise the Siege of Madrid" (TIME, July 26 et seq.) had been broken by the Rightists at Brunete and not a single structure stood last week in that shattered spearhead of the Madrid defenders' advance. As pretty, Polish Mile. Gerda Taro, 25, was taking pictures for LIFE and footage for the MARCH OF TIME of the retreat from Brunete she was killed...
...been married twice, first to Austrian-Polish Count Joseph Gizycki, by whom she has a daughter, then to the late Elmer Schlesinger, Shipping Board counsel. Her pet dislike is Eugene Meyer, and last week she was in a position to give him and other Washington publishers plenty to think about...