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Through the five boroughs of New York City last week prowled a dozen inspectors of the Department of Markets, their eyes peeled as usual for butchers with a thumb on the scales or too much fat in the hamburger. But they were snooping-perhaps uneasily-for a different kind of...
Disney, of course, mixes plenty of sugar with his Ken-L-Ration, and at times the background music sounds suspiciously like Poochini. But, on the whole, the show is more fun than a barrelful of puppies and will undoubtedly sell like pupcorn in the local fleatraps.
First off, he decided that the $1.7 billion pork-barrel rivers and harbors bill did not measure up to being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon...
If you're planning to travel abroad this summer, you may be interested to know that your copy of TIME will cost seven escudos in Portugal, ten piastres in Egypt, 100 fils in Iraq. Business Manager David Ryus has been telling me some fascinating facts about how these currencies...
Two days later, a government spokesman told newsmen that the Premier wasn't going to resign after all. Instead he was off to The Hague with a barrelful of documents to prove that the perfidious British had committed more evil in Iran than "anything in the Middle Ages."