Word: powders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Succumbing to last week's pandemic strike fever, the women elevator operators of Boston's 13-story Statler Building held an excited conference over cigarets in the powder room. They decided to strike posthaste for discharge of their unpopular supervisor and a raise...
...bosses, peppery Premier Thomas C. Douglas and dapper Treasurer Clarence M. Fines, are just as enthusiastic about Cadbury. They imported him as a student of famed Economist Lord Keynes, a veteran of 22 years in Britain's Labor Party, a director of a cooperative cannery and a custard powder firm in Britain...
...Farben plant has been blown up by the Allies, he said. Nor have any even been marked for destruction. The one plant destroyed with much fanfare three weeks ago was not owned, merely operated by Farben. Thirteen Farben munitions plants are still operating, in some cases even making powder, cartridges and shells for the Allies. Why the delay in breaking up Farben? Mutual distrust among the Allies, said Colonel Bernstein. (Only 9.7% of Farben's factories are in the U.S. zone...
Corsage boxes under their arms, new white gowns carefully tucked inside evening wraps, the girls minced over worn red carpets through the cold night air to a Cypress Street entrance of stately Hotel Windsor. Well ahead of the 9:30 starting time, some retired to powder rooms to rig their elbow-length gloves, give themselves a last appraising look. The occasion: the 67th anniversary of the historic St. Andrew's Day Ball, theater of "coming out" operations...
Next day, at Ebenhausen, a second powder plant was razed. The Ebenhausen plant had been blown up by the Allies once before...