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...fault with the general reasoning: veterans as a class certainly do not expect the Government to keep them, but many have come to the place where their health is impaired and they are no longer employable. These veterans do need help. P. M. MOORE (Veteran, World War I) Aitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...though I've 'ardly an aitch to my name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Ardly an Aitch | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...pound of pure opium ("hop"), which used to cost $75 in the U.S. underworld, now brings as much as $700. The price of pure heroin ("aitch") has gone up from $60 an ounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: V for Hop | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Jules Semon Bache, broker and bon vivant, laid away his millions so thriftily that when he died last fortnight (TIME, April 3), U.S. art lovers found themselves beneficiaries of a superb art collection. Last week the 63 Bache (rhymes with aitch) paintings were still hanging in the Bache Manhattan mansion, which the collector had donated (1937) to house them, where they were on view upon application. When the war ends, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will house the approximately $12 million worth of Bache paintings where everybody can see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Bache Collection | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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