Word: slicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist slate for the Dec. 2 national elections already included a banker, lawyers, and professional men. A notable candidate for the Chamber of Deputies was small, shy artist Candido Portinari, famed portrayer of undernourished coffee workers and slick society matrons. Said Portinari, explaining his conversion to politics: "We must all take our posts in this decisive phase of history, whose march no force can detain, because it is more powerful than the atomic bomb." Rio political analysts thought Communist Candidate Fiuza might nose out ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting...
Salvador Dali, a slick painter and a calculating showman, who has made surrealism into a lucrative side show, combines the methods of the old masters and the madness of a slap-happy showoff. Both method and madness were appallingly apparent, as usual, in a new Dali show of eleven recent paintings which opened this week in Manhattan's Bignou Gallery. He did all eleven in just nine months. The paintings were so delicately labored, so ingeniously jumbled, and so elaborately inconsequential that gallery-goers went away wondering how a mustachioed, 52-year-old child could possibly display such professional...
...problem that cigaret makers had selling to women." At night, McKelvy began mixing powder in a tin pan with an eggbeater, soon had enough to take around to stores. To Manhattan buyers, he brought cheap full-page ads in obscure trade journals, promised them they would appear in the slick magazines. The stores bit, but slowly at first. He lost $5,000 the first year. Then came the war, and the boom in shipments of gift packages to G.I.'s overseas. By 1942, Alfred D. McKelvy Co. (trade name: Seaforth Toiletries for Men) grossed over $500,000, good enough...
...Long? Meanwhile, the rest of the industry, except for Ford, watched and went on working, getting ready to make cars. Packard hoped to bring its slick line of Clippers out in two weeks; Studebaker. with production almost ready to start, tried to placate the union with a 12?-an-hour pay raise. Chrysler had little to worry about-for the time being. The union talked of a strike against it too. But, reportedly, Chrysler was so far behind the others in reconverting that its cars might not come out until the first of the year...
Undaunted, Fireman Corporal Harry Slick loaded 21 freight cars with 1,000 tons of supplies, including high-octane gasoline and explosives, and set off northward. Coming down a mountain, the throttle broke and the brakes refused to grab. Corporal Slick was doing 90 m.p.h. when he reached the flat again-somehow still on the tracks-and his supply train roared through eight stations before it finally stopped. The reward which he got from a grateful Red Army commander was the coveted Order of the Red Star; it entitled him to free rail-transport anywhere in the Soviet Union...