Word: puff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resistance was cited last week by Charles D. Henderson, executive vice president of New York State Automobile Dealers. The dealers, he said, were squirming under a deluge of vituperation from customers forced to buy unwanted "extras." The extras include fog lights, seat covers, lap robes, special steering wheels, powder-puff holders, radios with rear-seat speakers and up to $350 worth of luggage to match the baggage compartment. General Motors and Ford promptly denied that they were adding unordered extras, passed the blame back to the dealers...
...Puff, Puff. The big surprise was the railroads which, thanks to rate increases, were by & large chuffing along from slim profits into fat ones. For example, Baltimore & Ohio, with a half-year net of about $9,000,000, was up 73%. The Denver, Rio Grande & Western, with a net of $3,583,395, was up 260%. A major exception was Robert R. Young's Chesapeake & Ohio (see below), whose profits were nipped a third by the mine stoppage. Even the small, potato-hauling Bangor & Aroostook, which had not made money in any June since 1935, showed a profit...
...marches" and "settlements." It even seemed as though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will the price of rice go down...
...sophomore at the State University of Iowa, his father went broke in the postwar crash of land prices. Gallup made his own way with a towel service in the college locker room, later as editor of the Daily lowan. He transformed the lowan from a routine college puff sheet into a paper with national news. He began to get interested in why people read certain stories-and how many and which ones they actually do read. After graduation he stayed on at Iowa as a graduate student in psychology...
...Cream-Puff Contrast. How was the battle of Italy going? A TIME correspondent cabled some impressions...