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Just think--our very own pocket comb absolutely free! This magnanimous benefaction, unfortunately, appears to be the only offer which does not "involve a small purchase"--a $50 bicycle, for example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SQUARE DEAL: CON | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

...careful reading of either the list or the book shows that to obtain the comb one must make a small purchase (twenty-nine cents, in itself representing a twenty cent saving on a common need). There are, however, two offers which do not "involve a small purchase" at all: one is good for a suit pressing job and another for the development of any roll of films. The required purchases are all of items normally bought by many Harvard students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SQUARE DEAL: PRO | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

When he took office after an era of openhanded public spending, Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines suspended all government contracts to comb them for waste and graft. Construction industries soon felt the pinch and the whole economy slowed down. In 1953, output fell, the foreign-trade deficit rose one-third, and nearly all employers laid off help. Last week, faced by a worsening business recession, the President announced that he would shelve austerity and spend a record $400 million this year on pump-priming public works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Priming the Pump | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

Australian girls are very fine girls, Look away, look away! With codfish bones they comb their curls, Look away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Look Away | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Hundreds of enthusiastic peasants, many of them barefooted, waited on an outdoor basketball court for him to appear. Dripping wet, Magsaysay borrowed a comb from a toothy young man whom he introduced as "Commander Big Boy, one of the Huks who surrendered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Mambo, Mambo | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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