Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each fighter strip by nickname went orders: "Gin Fizz take off. ... Bottoms Up take off. . . . What's Cooking take...
Their show was a fast, 58-minute routine: Miss Francis told stories; Miss Landis sang (one of her numbers: Strip Polka) ; Miss Raye clowned and Miss Mayfair danced, winding up her act by cutting a rug with a soldier and then carrying him offstage like a sack of meal. When they learned that their audiences hungered for the scent of perfume, the girls conserved their small supply by wearing it only at performances...
...British man-in-the-street can speak for himself. Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel. His column, "Sitting On The Fence," is a kind-of literary comic strip, in which various permanent characters comment obliquely or directly on the affairs...
...whether, in view of the steel industry's rapid expansion now, there will be need for new private capital expenditures after the war. In the past, continuous high capital outlays have been a key to prosperity: thus the big investments which steel firms made in new continuous strip mills in 1936 and 1937 (as indicated on the chart) played an important part in the 1937 recovery. Whether industry discovers such new technologies after the war and invests in them will have a lot to do with whether private capitalism works...
...time the track opens, Promoter Pagliai hopes every one of its 800 stalls will be filled. Last week 300 horses were already trying out its racing strip - including nine owned by President Camacho, eight owned by Governor Barba González of Jalisco, scores of U.S. racers recently imported from California by Mexican bigwigs. Even ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, who once banned all gambling in Mexico (except the National Lottery), is contemplating a racing stable...