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TIME, Feb. 8, states that "Tiger was folded into Air Force slang by U.S. pilots in Korea; in Asia, the tiger is an age-old symbol of ferocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...also an age-old Americanism. The word folded into Air Force slang in Korea from General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers. General Chennault . . . got his first military training at Louisiana State University where the students are known as Louisiana

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1954 | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

...midst of all the international frothing and fuming, Latin Americans completely neglected to call attention to the best proof of their claim that coffee is simply moving on the age-old tides of supply and demand. The fact is that Latin-American coffee drinkers are in much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Coffee Nerves | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Tiger was folded into Air Force slang by U.S. pilots in Korea; in Asia, the tiger is an age-old symbol of ferocity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The New Dimension | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...stop there would be to accept hopelessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the disappearance of the great artistic, scientific and cultural achievements, and probably condemning mankind to begin all over again the age-old struggle upward from savagery toward decency, justice and right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: A New Language | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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