Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shops and bazaars are jammed with Chinese women in high-collared silk dresses, Malay women in brightly colored sarongs, Indian women in saris. They spend money freely, balking only occasionally at the steadily soaring prices. Inflation keeps pace with prosperity: already a can of Canadian salmon, a relatively expensive dish to begin with, is appreciably cheaper than fish caught along Singapore's own waterfront...
...during an era that launched such merchant tycoons as John Wanamaker, Louis Bamberger, Marshall Field and David May, Cleveland's Samuel Halle and his brother Salmon put $10,000 into a modest fur store specializing in sealskin caps. A dozen expansions have built Halle Brothers Co. into a $39 million-a-year business, and left 82-year-old Samuel Halle the last survivor of the big-name U.S. department-store pioneers. Last week key employees surprised spry Co-Founder Halle with a 60th anniversary luncheon and the gift of a leather desk set -which he can use daily...
...this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...
...gain that was Robert Lovett was offset, at least in part, by the loss of one of the nation's most effective diplomats. Tired out and in bad health, wearing a black patch over the eye he injured by the barb of a salmon fly while fishing in England, 56-year-old Lewis Douglas called at the White House last week and resigned his post as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After he finished winding up his affairs in England, Lew Douglas was going home for a long and well-deserved rest...
France--Elizabeth Gallaher, Marion Henderson, Marie Johnson, Miss Melchior, Denise Otis, Elizabeth Salmon, and Margery Ann Williams; Greece--Eve Catagygiotu; Italy--Joan C. Capeci and Minerva Pinell; the Netherlands--Elizabeth J. Weichel; Norway--Dorothy J. Burton; and the United Kingdom--Doris V. Evans and Isabel E. Gamble...