Word: wears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened her fall show. Excerpts from the catalogue (called "Trajectory"): "Coats & jackets foretell the future, their insides stuffed with baby feathers. . . . Hats made of fur or fluff come within the realm of logic. . . . Colors take on the nature of dreams but gold sheds its earthly influence on all we wear...
...nation's No. 2 maker of electrical equipment* issued a simple folder breaking down operations for the nine years 1929-1937 into one-syllable categories. Total income was $1.261.313,000. Deducting sums "paid out for materials, supplies, fuels, transportation ... set aside to replace plants and equipment as they wear out . . . paid in interest on borrowed money" and disbursed as taxes, Westinghouse had "left for our employees, for our stockholders and for future needs" $669,490.000. Of this, employees got $589.091,000, or 46.7% of total income, in wages and salaries. Group insurance premiums and payments to the employe annuity...
...form may occur in persons anywhere between the ages of 20 and 50, causes swelling of joints, wasting of bones and muscles, destruction of cartilage sheathing the ends of the bones, and fusion of joint bones. The hypertrophic form, which usually occurs in older people as a result of wear & tear, is less severe, less painful. The ends of the bones grow thicker and their cartilage coverings slip off and work their way around joint cavities (joint mice), leaving the raw edges of the joint-bones to scrape together...
This theme will run through a series of full-page ads, starting in November, in the Druggist's big sister, Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (circulation: 1,850,000), with an added plug for important Druggist customers like Absorbine, Jr. Fletcher's Castoria, Seiberling's Dry-wear Latex Baby Pants. Only cost to them will be $10 worth of products a month as prizes in a window-display contest. Text is being prepared free by eight leading advertising agencies. "Cooper-ating" editorials will be released each month in 20 Hearst daily newspapers (combined circulation...
...engine men will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs and are not expected to be officer material at the end of their 90 days of general seamanship instruction, but they will receive certificates, ratings, the right to wear special insignia, the right to return for brushing-up courses later...