Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expensive Chair. Sing Sing Prison, which has electrocuted only seven women in its history, went to considerable trouble and expense in preparing to execute Martha Beck, the "Lonely Hearts" murderess. To accommodate Mrs. Beck-who beat another woman's brains out after plotting the deed with a greasy-haired Romeo named Raymond Fernandez-Sing Sing reopened the woman's wing of the death house and hired four female helpers...
Twelve blocks north of. the Center on Broadway, David Dubinsky runs his International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from a chromium and air-conditioned building once owned by Henry Ford. To a large extent, he also runs the Manhattan garment district (where 70% of all women's clothes are made) and all the other centers of the industry scattered across the U.S. and Canada...
...last week's form, the national women's singles at Forest Hills (which start late this month) no longer looked like a pre-ordained duel between Brough and Du Pont. Doris Hart had a good chance to win. The others' chances were slimmer, but any one, playing over her head for one day, might dump one of the queens before it was over...
...varicolored underbrush. The health message, tacked on by Upjohn: BREEDING PLACES FOR SNEEZES-WHEEZES. Earl Kerkam had painted a lugubrious gentleman, tired and mistrustful. Upjohn had labeled it, HAVE YOU LEARNED TO LIVE WTH A STOMACH ULCER? A painting by Alexander James was captioned SKIN TROUBLE IN MEN AND WOMEN. Fletcher Martin's painting of a lovely, pearly-skinned girl was titled ANEMIA...
...furniture, a diamond ring, wrist watch and assorted luggage), all of which was valued at nearly $9,000, brought in about $3,000. The syndicate would also be well-clad for a while: a Chicago tailoring firm had agreed to make up $1,000 worth of men's & women's suits for any & all of them, with no time limit on when they had to collect. Another $1,000 in shirts (valued at $3.65 each) was being gradually peddled off at $2 a shirt...