Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Petrillo flew from Chicago to New York to pull out all the stops. Muzak Corp. agreed not to pipe in canned music to silent hotels, A.F.L. electricians pledged themselves not to install jukeboxes. As Petrillo, dressed in two-tone shoes and a cream-colored silk shirt, made the rounds of unmusical bars, another friendly columnist, the New York Post's Earl Wilson, stalked him behind a glass of beer at Toots Shor's non-union spot...
Under the leadership of Dr. Doreal and his astral remote control, Denver's Brotherhood of the White Temple prospered. By 1942 it had acquired an imposing downtown mansion. Here, pink-cheeked Prophet Doreal, garbed in a gold-trimmed robe of purple silk, addressed his followers from a throne that had once belonged to Mexico's Emperor Maximilian...
...them. But Britain's vigilant Treasury, worrying over the possibility of a serious flight of British capital, has known that many were systematically evading restrictions. A favorite dodge was for British clients well known in continental hotels to run up huge accounts, for everything from hired cars to silk lingerie, then leave bills for future payment when currency restrictions are lifted. The more daring arranged for bills to be paid in Britain through agents or affiliated hotels...
...Producer Hellinger is noted for whopping charitable donations and extravagant tipping ($15 to captains, $10 to waiters, up to $5 to busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes and his small superstitions...
...harbors were handling a swelling flow of exports-$70,000,000 since Jan. 1; electric kilowatt-hours in the first four months this year were one million over the same period last year; the wheat crop, six million tons, was four-fifths of the prewar average. The 1946 raw silk estimate was the highest in history. Even inventors were busy: in Milan last week an auto-plane rolled at 40 m.p.h. on a highway, then flew...