Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holland is still picturesque: large hay-boats sail by on the North Sea Canal. When we went under draw bridges the operators lowered small wooden shoes so we could put in a few cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River...
Into Killian's department store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa last week bustled thousands of women to get something for nothing. The "something" was a small orchid. In three days, Killian's gave away 10,000, and pushed sales 53% above normal volume...
...Hawaii. Founded by Hawaii's Territorial Senator William H. ("Doc") Hill with the help of a fast-moving Los Angeles florist named Graham W. Dible, F.O.H. has sold some 5,700,000 orchids since 1946. This year the company hopes to sell 6,000,000 vanda orchids (a small flower about 2½ inches long), and gross about...
...Olaa packing and fumigating plant, 150 girls grade and separate the blooms, insert the stems into small plastic vials which have wads of wet cotton inside and are fitted with lapel pins. The flowers are air-expressed to mainland customers, who pay 10? to 15? a blossom...
...Puritans will be rated a heavy favorite over the Leverett team, which was trounced by Eliot in its opener. Winthrop's hefty forward wall kept Kirkland from scoring, and is expected to wear down the small Leverett frontier. The Puritans didn't show much of an aerial display against Kirkland but it has a hard-driving backfield paced by Frank Hernberg...