Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a conjurer bringing himself out of a silk hat, a little natty man with a toothbrush mustache entered a Manhattan speakeasy one evening last week very quietly. He knew his getting out of the hat at all was a sensation. Last seen in a Paris jail after a U. S. woman missed a $100 American Express check, Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), 42, all-time amateur impostor, ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have...
Paradoxically the fall of the yen since it went off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) has now produced a nationwide "inflation boom." Silk raisers who received about 1,500 yen per bale of raw silk in 1929 and were forced last July to sell at the "panic price" of 450 yen, now get 900 yen and exult that "silk prices have doubled in the last half year...
...flag etc. etc. My husband, a U. S. Navy man, claims the Vice President does not have a flag. . . . MRS. J. M. SCHMUTZ Rockport, Mass. The Vice President has no specific flag. But in his office is a flag specially made for him. a U. S. flag of rich silk on a short mahogany staff. It is fringed with gold, surmounted with an eagle, has two gold tassels.-ED. Al Smith's Vibrato...
...leather windbreaker (stained, used) ... 360 rubles 9 pairs silk stockings ... 325 9 badly worn dresses...
...years the paper barely eluded the sheriff. Then Publisher Lamade organized a lottery (legal in those days), with prizes of a piano, a gold watch, a marble-top chamber suite, a rifle, a silk dress pattern. Four coupons clipped from Grit bought a chance. Few months later the paper was out of debt; its circulation (initially 1,500) was 14,000. The three proprietors shook hands, raised their own wages from...