Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save Canada around $12,000,000 annually-money which would have been paid to the delinquents (as clothing allowances, discharge pay, etc.) after their capture and punishment. But to some Canadians, that seemed small compensation. Said the conservative Toronto Globe & Mail: "Villainy. . . [The] Government has irreparably injured the moral fabric of this country. . . It has yielded to the temptation of the lowest sort of political expediency. The Government has forgiven the deserters. Who will forgive the Government...
Atop a wave of postwar business mergers, two whitecaps stood out last week: J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., one of the oldest names in the U.S. textile industry, wove a new pattern with nine fabric manufacturers.* The proposed combine would put 28 mills under one management, give the company the industry's biggest capitalization: $75 million. The fabric would be loosely woven, with each company keeping its present management and operating as a division of Stevens. Biggest advantage: common ownership of mills making rayon, cotton and woolen fabrics, as a hedge against a collapse in the market...
...front organization. Ellen Terhune's entire life is oppressed by her guilty sense of the past. The Manichean heresy that God and the Devil are each in control of half the world, a heresy which the New England ministers of the seventeenth century all unwittingly dramatized into the permanent fabric of American thought, captures the soul of Asa Stryker eventually to destroy...
...while it looked as though the Hollywood girls would have to go it on their own. But last week, by a last-minute compromise, the grave jurisdictional issue was settled. Henceforth, Motion Picture Costumers Local 705 (A.F. of L.) would install only fabric "falsies" for such flat-chested working personnel as Hedy La-Marr, Paulette Goddard, Katherine Hepburn and Betty Button. Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 (A.F. of L.) would install the rubber ones. Movieland bosoms rose with relief...
...best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...