Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington talks, the bullyragging and the bitter recriminations that had passed between the U.S. and Britain faded into an abashed mumble-grumble. On both sides of the Atlantic, hot words cooled off under the growing realization that the British crisis was a crisis for the whole Western world...
...list of her dollar spending (after coal and industrial machinery). The saving of $200 million would help to meet the dollar deficit. Oil sales in the U.S. would help still more, and Canadians thought that the U.S. would not ignore this fact in its concern for the western world's economic health...
Thanks to Television. With help from Boyd, and such other horse-opera stars as Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, one retailer estimated the trade would sell upwards of 40 million pieces of Western gear this year. About half of all boys' furnishings will have a Western touch. Though the boom has been building for several years, one big reason for the sudden upsurge is television. Unable to get current movies, TV stations have resurrected hundreds of old-fashioned Westerns...
...class and make many of the items necessities for many kids. Now they wear blue jeans and Levi's to school, even in New York." Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus has set up a special cowboy section; Philadelphia's Lit Brothers has a "Western Trading Post." And retailers have egged on manufacturers to add new "cowboy" items. The latest item on the list: a Roy Rogers drinking glass...
...long will the boom last? Said the trade publication, the Boys' Outfitter: "Parents, sooner or later, are going to resist the Western trend...Johnny and Billy forever in...blue jeans, wearing sombreros in the home, and raising the roof with yipee and hi-ho while popping up and down behind chairs and sofas shooting off cap guns. [But at present] no end...is in sight...