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...other goodies now scarce in the British Concession, and there explained how it all happened. Some Japanese sentries, said the General, are simple peasants who do not understand European standards of modesty. His countrymen, he explained, do not mind disrobing in public or even parboiling in a public bath with members of the opposite sex. To prove his good faith, the General offered to take his own clothes off then & there for the correspondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Necessary Action | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...first industrial arts exhibition ever held in the U. S.; 1,300 items of Austrian and German craftsmanship. He arranged an exhibition of jewelry (something Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has not yet got around to), displayed New Jersey textiles, New Jersey bath tubs. New Jersey citizens came in droves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Newark & Dana | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Bath Iron Works: $9,626,000 for two destroyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: At Full Capacity | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Says Anor about her father: he has "a marverlas degestion," laughs at his own jokes, "is very fond of taking a bath as his exercise," can't write without smoking. His hobbies are playing with candle wax, coloring picture books, "smoking even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lin Gossips | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Crusty, cold-bath-and-calisthenics-loving James Oliver perfected the "Oliver Chilled Plow" in 1868. Although the first metal plow had been made in 1837, Oliver's chilled cast-iron model was such an improvement that he has been regarded ever since as the father of the modern plow. Last week Oliver Farm Equipment Co. of South Bend, Ind. proudly announced the "Raydex" base and point, "greatest advance in plow-making" since 1868-the first entirely machine-made plow base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: HARMONIC COMPLEX | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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