Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardy families, followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier, who believed that the ills and harsh competitions of the world could be ended by "associative living." It began as a farming venture on 673 acres of rich land. As its population increased (top membership: 112 men, women & children), a gristmill and a smithy were added and the association bought a part interest in two steamboats to get their excess goods and produce to New York. They put the first packaged "name brand" cereals on the market and their stamped trademark, N.A.P., came to stand for highest quality...
Life in the big, three-story phalanstery was rigorous and simple, but intellectually stimulating. Children received "progressive" education. Women were accorded the same rights and wages as men, wore bloomers (which shocked citizens of nearby Red Bank) and did honorable work in the fields. Members gathered almost nightly for plays, lectures, concerts and literary discussion. Religious tolerance and the 30-hour week were integral parts of the communal life...
...traffic jams when two neighboring drugstores got involved in a furious price war. The store managers kept each other under surveillance with "price spies," set up sidewalk blackboards to notify street crowds of new price cuts, drew mobs of customers by selling pie a la mode for a penny, women's panties for 25?, steak dinners...
Four years after war's end, Soviet Russia still keeps more than a million German and Japanese in her slave labor camps. Not all of them were taken as prisoners of war; many are civilians, including women taken from Eastern Germany. Little is known in the West about their fate; only an occasional carefully phrased postcard message reaches their families. But some have been released, and in its current issue the British Medical Journal published a memorable report on how such prisoners fare...
Habit. In Amagansett, N.Y., Alan Vass. charged with burglary when police found 79 pairs of women's shoes (all sizes 5 to 6) in his attic and garage, was ready with his explanation: "My wife once said she liked that kind. I got started taking them and couldn't stop...