Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help the Russians understand their American allies better the U.S. last year launched two Russian-language magazines, produced by OWI and sold throughout the U.S.S.R. Amerika was pocket-size, crammed with informative, uplifting articles. Appearing in alternate months, as a change of diet, was a handsome, 80-page, slick-paper, LiFE-size magazine called Amerika Illiustrirovannoye (America Illustrated...
...contemporary U.S. paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...
With the stage all set, slick, quick Ed Claughton, who also deals in Miami real estate and runs seven Florida movie houses, last week announced that he is increasing his Katy holdings and buying large blocks of stock in both the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and the Chicago Great Western railroads. Claughton's plan: merge the three roads...
...ruined streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now filled with Japs who have small tufts of hair beginning to grow back on their slick pates. Temporary baldness is one symptom of radiation injury. A variation of the injury was discovered among a herd of red cattle grazing some 50 miles from last summer's test bombing in New Mexico. Radioactive dust settled on their backs, turned the red hair white in small splotches...
Next week Slick Airways will fly its first commercial cargo (vegetables and seafood) to the "Texas Brag" dinner* in Washington. Taking in all the hustle & bustle at Alamo Field, old Charlie Urschel Sr., a director of the fledgling company, cracked: "You'd think there was a hot lease play around here...