Word: liquidations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waitresses at L'Humanité's peace cocktail party wore neat, black dresses and crisp white aprons. They served only one drink -a pale yellow liquid which tasted vaguely like a martini. About a hundred foreign newspapermen, including only a handful of Americans, showed up at the party on the seventh floor of the building. The official host was stooping, white-haired Marcel Cachin, director of L'Humanité, whose attacks on the U.S. have been among the most violent and slanderous. He greeted U.S. journalists with great cordiality: "How nice of you to come...
...archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...
...engine, said Jack Reese, can be made in four, six, eight or twelve cylinders. (The cylinders are finned like an aircraft air-cooled engine.) A 4-cylinder motor weighing 770 pounds develops 250 horsepower and takes up little more space than the radiator and fan of a comparable liquid-cooled engine...
Sand & Snow. U.S. Army Ordnance had wanted such a power plant ever since maneuvers in Alaska proved that conventional liquid-cooled engines were impractical for such climates. It put Continental, the biggest maker of air-cooled engines for tanks in World War II, to work. Jack Reese claimed-and Army Ordnance backed him up-that the engine will operate efficiently in desert heat or Arctic cold, and weighs only one-third as much as liquid-cooled jobs of equivalent horsepower. Developed by Continental Engineers Carl F. Bachle and Edward A. Hulbert, the new engine is simple in design and requires...
Trouble Compounded. For all that Manhattan Butcher Anthony D'Amelio angrily boarded up his shop and Boston Dealer Malcolm McCabe called meat packers "a bunch of robbers," there was no effective buyers' strike against the stratospheric prices. Along with higher wages, consumers had more liquid assets than ever to spend ($130 billion in Government bonds and bank accounts alone, according to the latest Federal Reserve Board survey), and were spending them. In place of an expected midsummer lull, retailers reported that the dollar volume of sales across the U.S. last week was up 6% to 10% over last...