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...America," said Sir Frederick, "the one thing they lack is a fine Scottish kipper." The guests agreed. They had just eaten 160 fine Scottish kippers to celebrate the shipping of 4,000,000 cellophane-wrapped, frozen kippers to New York, in the first big postwar invasion of the bacon & eggs (and dollar) market by the trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Kipper Caper | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...Cost. What had happened? Both the hospital ship's Captain Barton E. Bacon (who had been the last man off his sinking vessel) and the Luckenbach Line agreed that though both ships were equipped with radar, neither had been relying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Rescue in the Fog | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Captain Bacon said that his ship had been making possibly 15 knots, which seemed a high speed for a pea-soup fog, but there was also some evidence that the freighter, though outward bound, had been moving along the inward-bound channel. These were questions for the board of inquiry and the courts to decide; even before the inquiry was over the U.S. filed a damage action asking $14 million from the Luckenbach Line, accusing it of negligence. Among the government's accusations: Excessive speed, failure to sound proper whistle, failure to use radar or other navigational warning aids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Rescue in the Fog | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...turning out in droves for a new national pastime: stock-car racing. Sheer speed was not the point; nobody was after records. The main idea was to pack 20 or 25 hopped-up cars on a tight, sharply-turned little quarter-mile track, and let them go for the bacon. The result was motor madness -a deafening combination of roaring engines and screeching tires, cars careening against each other or spinning into fences at 60 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Motor Madness | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...points meant not only an end of coupon headaches but a saving for the Ministry itself, which had employed more than 1,000 clerks to keep track of the points. The change did not, however, mean the end of all rationing. Such basic foods as meat, fats, bacon, cheese, tea, sugar and sweets were still rationed. The fair distribution of everything else was up to the food sellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Point Comfort | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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