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...Butcher Club. A new moneymaking trick with all the appeal of a chain letter was being tried out by many a U.S. meat market. To spur sales, nipped by high prices, retailers were selling at wholesale prices. They made their profit by charging customers a weekly fee for the privilege of wholesale buying. Butchers were making enough on the fees to pass on savings of as much as 25% to customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Frightened City | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice in the Land | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...world he becomes a heartless butcher, a quick target for civilian public opinion, a perfect scapegoat for the Pentagon's brass hats, easy prey for congressional busybodies making overseas inspection tours. No pleas, no threats will budge Dennis: he is as adamantine of mind as he is agonized of soul. Eventually he is relieved of his command. But at the very end, his successor is won over to his policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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