Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Mr. Jackson, who is managing director of TIME-LIFE International: "When peace came, we felt a little like the old woman who lived in a shoe-except that we think we do know what to do with our children. These are our basic plans...
...candle. His miserly Old Man Figuring seems to be plucking out sums like a harpist. Sometimes his stuff looks like-matchstick people that a U.S. Indian might have scratched on a rock. His Witch with a Comb would be an innocuous little old woman-in spite of her shoe-button eyes-except that her hands are arrows pointing straight down to the ground as if to say "I could kill...
...violinists is a Sears, Roebuck shoe salesman, another is president of the company that makes Golden Glint Hair Rinses. The tympanist is an investment banker. For 25 years the 109-piece Chicago Business Men's Orchestra has been entertaining their friends, their families-but mostly themselves-with their music...
...angry words, as Bowles well knows, bring few beeves to market. So he also acted. He broadened OPA's plan of "incentive" price increases to coax the quick production of more consumers' goods, chiefly low-priced articles. Shoe manufacturers were granted a wholesale price boost of 42%, cheap furniture makers 7-13%, radio makers 10-15%, makers of lawn mowers 17%. On some cotton goods such as bedspreads and table linen, price boosts ran from as much as 20% to 40%. Before long, OPA expects to give sizable price increases also to makers of electrical appliances and household...
...words like cold and hunger had a remote and dimly remembered sound. Thanksgiving turkeys arrived in market by the carload; to get more mincemeat on the holiday table, OPA raised the ceiling price 2? a pound. Shoe rationing was over; department stores were taking orders for Christmas nylons...