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...Calf Love. In Omaha, Apartment-house Owner Ted Miller made an addition to his "No Dogs Allowed" sign after a young couple kept a calf in their apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...supply, 40% of the cattle side upper leather. Reason: the Army's new high-cuff boot, now specified for soldiers in combat areas, takes three and a half times as much leather as an ordinary men's "dress" shoe. The Navy is now consuming 28% of all calf leather. Civilians this year will get 18% less leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Pinch | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Life in Montana. In Broadus, Mont., local news went on, war or no war: three residents killed three rattlesnakes, a cow allowed a cat to fall asleep on her back, another cow gave birth to a three-legged calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

When the two fighters climbed into the Garden ring last week, Armstrong's comeback was already a success. Madison Square Garden was jammed and the gate was nearly $105,000, more than Armstrong ever drew there when he was a triple champion. Dusky Jack, obviously no calf-eyed pupil, pounced upon him with trip-hammer lefts and jolting right uppercuts. Armstrong just put his head down and bored in, soon made Jack back away, in the ninth and tenth rounds kept him well backed against the ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gaudy Touch | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

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