Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addressed to the "hip harness and bosom bolster business," heralded a wartime camouflage cloth impregnated by a top secret process with "a per- manent odor of hibiscus, hydrangea, and old rubber boots." It concluded: "If you want to achieve that careless look and avoid skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated...
...Haven, Whittemore will have a road to run on which steam is already up. Palmer did a good job guiding the road through a twelve-year bankruptcy, got it back on its feet with its indebtedness greatly reduced. He also bought most of the 250 diesel engines and 180 streamlined postwar passenger cars (most of them with reclining seats and separate smoking compartments), which make the New Haven one of the most up-to-date roads in the East. A short-haul road with an eye on the passenger business, it ranks tops with New York commuters...
...appropriating for TVA, Congress had refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge...
...vesting in James Watt, Engineer . . . the sole Use and Property of certain Steam Engines ... of his Invention...
...Amparo wanted to go too, but Jose said no: "It's all work. One gets nothing but exhaustion. And [for her] it's not necessary." That is why, she says, she is still a "kind of wild pianist." At 18, Amparo arrived in Paris under her own steam, made her debut as a pianist six years later. Finally, just before the Spanish civil war broke out, Jose persuaded her to join...