Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upper class even wealthier than before the civil war, particularly conspicuous in miserable Spain. While the poor queued up for their daily ration of uneatable bread, "the wealthy continued their pleasant custom of stopping off on their way home from Mass to consume some of the admirable Spanish éclairs or mille-feuilles...
...Last year civilians bought an average of 3.4 pairs, an alltime record. Thus "average" citizens, especially men, will find the new rationing order a minor inconvenience. Chief sufferers: women in upper-income groups, who are the shoemakers' best customers'; women in low-income groups, who buy cheap shoes and have to replace them frequently...
Imperial Industrial Corp., under its portly, bespectacled President Max Kortlander, occupies the third floor of a rambling brick factory in the upper fringes of The Bronx. It seldom advertises, does much of its retailing through big concerns like Sears, Roebuck and Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Its customers are mostly U.S. farm families. To this small but steady market, Imperial sells approximately half a million pianola rolls a year. Biggest current sellers: When the Lights Go on Again, Moonlight Becomes You, The Beer Barrel Polka, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, The Star-Spangled...
Among the most elaborate trapping mechanisms is that of the Dionaea (Venus's-flytrap). Indigenous to North and South Carolina, the Dionaea is a rosette of leaves, three to six inches across, rising from a rootstock more or less horizontally. The upper part of the leaf consists of two dished lobes whose outer margins have a row of coarse teeth. The plant appears to have been discovered by Colonial Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina...
Shifted up into his present position last October as a replacement for Dean Richard F. French '37, Dean Paul was in charge of the two upper classes. His work in the Navy will probably consist of administrative and personnel work in the Air Corps he said...