Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a humble green but a trade word for any superfluous decoration. From these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives the dress trade a sane and entertaining dressing down...
...adequate consideration of grave conditions within the TVA. ... I am of the opinion that this meeting is not, and in the nature of the case cannot be, an effective or useful fact finding occasion." Pressed, the chairman snapped: "I am an observer and not a participant in this alleged process of fact finding...
...only definite innovation he is contemplating is a seminar in political and legal philosophy, embracing, among others, the fields of the social sciences. He is now in the process of gathering material for this...
...Government officials had decided there was only one way to stop it. Argentina will destroy her entire paper currency of 1,100,000,000 pesos ($286,000,000) and substitute new notes. This time the issue will be printed from steel-engraved plates instead of by the cheaper lithographic process, which big-time forgers found easy to duplicate...
Time was when Pittsburgh was the U. S. steel town, Detroit the automobile town, Akron the rubber town. But the improvement to transportation facilities has led to a general decentralizing of U. S. industries. Incidentally, the process has been hard on Labor. Nowhere is this more evident than in Akron, which last week witnessed a Grade A case in point: In a blunt manifesto to the United Rubber Workers Union, B. F. Goodrich Co. announced that its workers would have to accept 13% to 18% wage cuts or else Goodrich would pull another 5,000 jobs out of its Akron...