Word: auge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other prizes: to Chicago's WBBM, for its Report Uncensored (TIME, Aug. 11); to KXAR, of Hope, Ark., for outstanding public service during a flattening tornado; to Washington's WQQW (TIME, Jan. 20), for The Children's Hour, the best children's program, and to Minneapolis' WCCO, for As the Twig Is Bent, a youth rehabilitation series. The U.N. "Network for Peace" wins a special commendation for its United Nations Today...
...revolution was caused by home permanent wave kits (TIME, Aug. 18). In less than three years, home "cold" waves, which women give themselves for $2 or less, had become a vastly profitable industry. The Rexall Drug chain had its own kit. So did Montgomery Ward & Co. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. was about to bring one out. Wailed a Boston beauty-shop owner to a Watt Street Journal reporter: "Don't talk to me about those things; I've lost half my customers already and unless we do something I'll lose the rest...
Some observers thought that under the proposed U.N. trusteeship arrangement, the British might be willing to stay on in Palestine. But the British would have none of it. London announced that it still intended to surrender its Palestine mandate on May 15, withdraw its last troops by Aug. i. Snapped a Colonial Office spokesman: "Nothing could be clearer...
...dentists were shown an easy way of putting themselves halfway out of business. Dr. John Knutson, of the U.S. Public Health Service, demonstrated the best way of swabbing children's teeth with fluoride.*Properly done, the swabbing appears to reduce cavities by 40 to 50% (TIME, Aug...
Britons began to realize that the prohibitive tax on Hollywood films (TiME, Aug. 18) was causing a serious shortage of movies in Britain...