Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Mary's million-stitch needlepoint rug, after three months of exhibition in the U.S. and Canada, was sold last week to the highest bidder: Canada's Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, which offered 100,000 Canadian dollars...
Proud I.O.D.E. officers said they would display the rug on a cross-Canada tour to help raise the purchase price, then present it to the National Gallery in Ottawa for permanent hanging. At London's Marlborough House, pleased Queen Mary asked a lady in waiting: "How much is $100,000 in sterling?"* The royal needleworker will turn the money over to the national exchequer as her contribution to Britain's dollar drive...
...tell whether a New York Times or Daily Worker man was asking a question, and the President thought he ought to know. Another annoyance was the reporters' habit, in unlimbering their fountain pens, of splattering ink on the President's prized, deep-piled green rug. Several months ago, someone emptied a whole penful of ink smack on the rug's presidential seal...
Last week, Harry Truman pulled the rug out from under the newsmen-and thereby broke an old news conference tradition. He announced that, starting this week, the conference will no longer be held in his office. It will be held in a conference room, which seats 200, on the fourth floor of the old State Department Building. There the President will meet the press, as in the past, every Thursday on alternate mornings and afternoons. Before asking a question, a reporter will have to stand, give his name and employer...
...feet, Zellerbach continued. A system of taxation which puts 43 taxes on a man's morning cup of coffee "tends to discourage business initiative and increase costs." Another obstacle to economic progress was the Italian bureaucracy. "A friend visited me," recounted the EGA chief, "and noticed a rug made here in Italy. He asked me to send samples and prices. After a month or two of trying to get all the necessary permits . . . my secretary gave up in despair, and the samples were never sent. Undoubtedly, much business has been lost for Italy in this manner...