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...Sizzling platters" are made of an aluminum alloy. The hotter they are kept before being used the longer and more madly they will sizzle on contact with melted butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Caterers' Capers | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Buffalo citizens were offering as much as $1.50 for a pound of butter last week. Storekeepers limited purchases of eggs to a half-dozen. Pork was hard to get at any price. Reason: 1,000 A. F. of L. truck drivers and warehousemen struck for the closed shop, affecting every store in the city except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. At the same time 1,300 C. I. O. packing house workers struck for recognition, a preferential shop, shorter hours, higher wages. Nearby farmers did a rushing roadside business. By week's end the truck & warehouse strike had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes & Settlements | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Josie Bishop is a small, bright, sun-browned widow with four grown children. Twenty years ago she moved to California's Mojave Desert from New Mexico, arriving with "a can of beans, a loaf of bread but no butter." She owns a patch of mining territory 27 miles north of Mojave, near wild, scenic Red Rock Canyon. Her claim to this land was recently in litigation, was cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Surest way to attract attention anywhere is to appear to shun it. In Hollywood, where attention is the population's bread & butter, this technique is doubly infallible. And what Montague did on golf courses would have brought him notoriety anywhere whether he shunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mysterious Montague (Concl.) | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Slim got his job because a butter-fingered lineman dropped a condenser and got fired. Red Blayd liked him. Red was independent as a king. He was the most respected man on that power job. He could have been a construction boss, but preferred a footloose life, wandering from one line job to another, working until he had a roll and then living high until he had to go to work again. First Slim was Red's "grunt" (groundman). Slim sent up tools as needed on the hand line, tossed up bolts which Red caught with the nonchalant magnificence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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