Word: shopwindows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stop before a shopwindow and on display is a beautifully made overcoat. You like the stylish cut, the color, and even the price. You step inside and the clerk tells you, 'That's not for sale.' Your determination leads you consecutively to the department head and the store manager, but everywhere you get the same answer: the goods are not for sale, but for the shopwindow. That shopwindow has been turned into a museum...
...before public buildings and jeep-mounted recoilless 106-mm. guns glower down the broad avenues, presumably on guard against the "corruption" and "imperialist aggressors" the Baghdad radio so ceaselessly attacks. Barefoot young people rove the banks of the Tigris, singing patriotic songs and shouting: "Nasser, Nasser." Every wall and shopwindow in town bears the image of the idol of the Nile-or that of Iraq's own Revolutionary Chief Karim Kassem...
...ordered Douglas DC-7Cs as substitutes for de Havilland's ill-fated Comet jet liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow for British aircraft. But if you choose the second alternative, you must not expect to make a profit." For too long, said he, Britain's aircraft industry has been "looking too hard at the stars and tripping over its own feet," has done too much "talking about tomorrow...
Applied Science. In Greenmeadows, New Zealand, a 13-year-old schoolboy was nabbed by police after he spotted a fireworks display in a shopwindow, focused the sun's rays through a magnifying glass, set off an explosion that destroyed ?16 ($44.80) worth of merchandise...