Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best of it possessed an effective if awkward directness. Au Bout on d'Or (see cut) looked static at first glance, but it had just the sexy-sweet, penny-arcade nostalgia she was trying for: the memory of summer nights when it is too hot to pull the shades and the city turns into a bright hive of private worlds...
Rice for the Rich. It is plowing season now. Because the Japanese Army slaughtered their water buffaloes, men must pull the plows. Chi Ho's hungry farmers struggle home to their riceless suppers and one morning cannot return to the fields. Production is lost; famine is prolonged...
...easily won the hit-&-run attacks on price control in the past, was now running into something like a pitched battle. Moreover, in price control, as in most things, Canada was influenced by what went on south of the border. Price rises in the U.S. had exerted an upward pull on Canadian prices. Now Canadians uneasily eyed the proposed emasculation of OPA. If that happened, they would have an even harder job keeping the lid on inflation in Canada...
Revolving Doors. Elizabeth Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous...
...Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson has long fought any change in the Government's inflationary policies in general, the preferential discount rate in particular. He feared that a change would pull one of the props out of the Government bond market and raise the short-term cost of Government financing. The Federal Reserve Board convinced him that it would not (although prices of Government bonds dropped last week). So, in effect, the board has finally taken a small step towards shaping its policies for the needs of peace...