Word: powdered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lady who sells face powder and buys horseflesh, Elizabeth Arden Graham, money is no object. She paid $34,000 for Colony Boy, $26,000 for Star Pilot, and with the help of her topflight trainer became racing's biggest pursewinner ($589,170) last year. Somehow, a horse named Knockdown, costing only $2,000, sneaked into her lush stables. Last week, in the richest race for three-year-olds ever run, the poor relation led all the way, and romped home the winner in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby...
...Sterling Drug and Sterling Products (aspirin, tooth powder, etc.), $8,252,208 for American Album of Familiar Music, Stella Dallas, Second Husband, Backstage Wife, Young Widder Brown...
Within the box raged a miniature storm of aluminum powder, churned by compressed air. With each breath the miners inhaled about five million tiny aluminum particles. The doctors' theory: aluminum powder forms a coating around silica powder in the air sacs, prevents formation of lung-eating silicic acid...
Britons scarcely noted the first rumblings of an acrimonious debate in the U.S. Congress over the British loan. They were more worried about dried eggs. Long the butt of G.I. wisecracks, the yellow powder is no joke to Britons, and when the Food Ministry announced that the monthly ration of one package (equivalent to twelve eggs) would have to end, there was a housewifely clamor...
...Dionne Quintuplets, preparing for a red-letter day, spent a busy week fussing with junior-miss dresses and big-girls' powder puffs. Next week they would crown a snow queen at the Northern Ontario Winter Carnival; it would be the fourth formal public appearance in their twelve years (No. 1: presentation to King...