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...Shortages. Tops on the list of things that most shoppers cannot get are dependable toys. Cracked a Newark merchant, of the wood and cardboard substitutes for metal trains, wagons and toys: "They won't last until Christmas . . . and probably not long after Christmas either." Also missing from most counters: pajamas, children's clothes, cribs, playpens and even rattles, watches, and-above all -good whiskeys. When a Washington D.C. liquor store advertised that it actually had 8,000 bottles of real rye, bourbon and Scotch for sale, a mob that made a football crowd seem tame waited outside through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: You Can Get Something | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Other papers, like the New York Daily News, have tested an "ersatz" newsprint made partially from old newspapers, either de-inked or not. There are hitches to this too: 1) most old newspapers now go into the manufacture of cardboard cartons; 2) door-to-door collection would be ineffectual and discouragingly difficult; 3) the operation is expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smaller Papers? | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...graduating 'Poon man takes a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful president, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

Written by MacLean Russell and Richard R. Rogan with generous and lib contributions by the cast, Rogan staged the production with typical Hollywood touches. Happy Graves did a nice job as stage manager, improvising plam trees out of cardboard and grass skirts out of shredded newspapers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

George Dixon, fortyish, is a Canadian-born, curly-haired, chunky Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News whose gay, lemonish journalese is often the frosting to a cardboard cake. Any Dixon story is entertaining, but readers can never be quite sure what is true and what is plain flapdoodle. Last week Dixon ran a delightful story in the News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reportage | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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