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...really trying to stop them. Despite the outcries, women were already showing enough enthusiasm for the New Look to pull the dress industry out of its slump and set it humming. Hems of old dresses were being let down with such speed that many a town ran out of seam tape. Said Harper's Bazaar airily: "Clear your closet and get your clothes into the hands of those who can use them [in Europe]." But the dresses most likely to be sought would probably be closer to Sophie Gimbel's ideas than to Dior...
...present icecap, most geologists believe, is comparatively new. Millions of years ago, they think, Antarctica was warmer, even tropical. A seam of coal 180 miles from the South Pole proves that the continent was once covered with vigorous vegetation. There may be oilfields too, and mineral deposits, including portentous uranium...
...They wanted us to build and operate a big basic chemical plant. I didn't know about operating such a plant, but they told us anyone who could operate an electric shovel, move 30 or 40 feet of overburden to get an 18-inch seam of coal, and make it pay, could operate anything...
...sailing koster Erma, with 16 war weary Estonians (seven men, five women, four little children) aboard, made her way from the Swedish coast to the U.S. through the seam-starting seas of the winter Atlantic...
...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...