Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before Christmas 1943: 400-odd electric train sets. Thus, when the stocks of competitors were running out, Gimbel stores were boldly advertising sales of scarce goods. Many a new customer was thus lured into a Gimbel store. Example: the chain's $3½-million-inventory of nylon and silk stockings lasted well into 1943, an irresistible lure for women who buy an estimated 85% of all retail merchandise sold...
...Want to Stay." Last week in Hut 2-B, the two old ladies, still abed, received American visitors, TIME Correspondent William W. Johnson and LIFE Photographer George Silk. They told their story-Victoria in perfect American, Grace with a slight accent. Would they pose for a picture? They fussed and primped, tied ribbons in their white hair, prettied their shawls, tidied their pillows, smoothed the bedcover. Flashlight bulbs popped. They blinked and giggled...
...night last week she had a long chat with two close friends. She was distressed, and she said so. The friends left at 3:30 a.m. Lupe whistled for her dogs, went to her bedroom. She undressed, stepped into blue silk pajamas, sat down on her huge bed to scribble a note. In her childish scrawl she wrote: "Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring in him with shame or killing...
Canadian women would hang up no Brazilian silk stockings this Christmas...
...water-laced flats of eastern Holland, Montgomery's British and Canadians moved ahead, canal by canal, while the Germans warily eyed' their reserves and wondered when the big blow would jail: For one of the operations that communiqués call "local actions," LIFE Photographer George Silk went forward with an assault battalion, cabled this report...