Word: adding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry drive and to emphasize Congress leaders' connection with the toiling masses. But hand spinning is so inefficient that a khadi outfit costs as much as a good suit of English tweeds. *To Indians there are few if any callings higher than the Civil Service. A recent movie ad, stressing its subject's sacrificial devotion to her art, said: "She turned down an I.C.S. man to become a movie star...
Champa Street. For four decades, Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils and his crony H. H. Tammen, a onetime barkeep, had run the paper like a circus, built circulation with spectacular outdoor shows, cheap insurance tie-ins, prizes for every want ad. The Post earned a million dollars a year, and put little of it into improving its contents...
...have reported that Dana Perfumes, Inc. has spent several millions in publicizing their ad of Tabu, the "forbidden" perfume, and the picture of seduction at the piano [TIME, Nov. 25]. But what is going to happen now that Airwick, the total deodorant, is spending thousands too? . . . Will the moral turpitude curve show a downward trend when Airwick kills the high-priced and seductive smells distilled from the scent glands of the musk deer and the civet cat? Think on these things...
...teeter on the brink of bloodshed, they were returning to New Delhi, to face the Congress organization's toughest problem: to accept or reject the British version of how the Constituent Assembly should be run (TIME, Dec. 16). With Nehru and Kripalani went Gandhi's blessing and ad vice. They would not say whether the Mahatma had recommended concessions that might win Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League to Assembly participation...
...Manhattan's nine dailies are now a nickel except the twopenny tabloids, the Mirror and Daily News, and the bulky Times, which sells its ad-rich product (at 3?) for little more than it pays for the blank paper (newsprint has jumped from $48 to $84 a ton since...