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Complaints. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Mary Athens won a divorce after com plaining that her gasoline had been ra tioned, by Mr. Athens, as far back as 1936. In Chicago, Mrs. Mary Louise Schwartz won a divorce when she com plained that Schwartz struck her for refus ing to chase fire engines with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Annapolis Trained. All of the flag officers who rule the waves-with one thin exception-are Annapolis trained, † That exception is Rear Admiral Albert B. Ran dall, ex-skipper of the Leviathan. No com bat commander, he is a member of the Merchant Marine Reserve and comman dant of the U.S. Maritime Service in the War Shipping Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Admirals | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...cruisers, carriers and battleships) the Navy has reserved for its regulars. The Navy still holds hard to its old school tie. By word and deed it follows a rigid rule: regulars are not only the best naval officers; they are the only ones yet eligible for the important seagoing com mands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: The Admirals | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...shares of stock (worth $18 million). It ended with a list of products that sounds like an inventory of a housewife's cupboards: Clapp's Baby Foods, Anacin, Black Flag insecticides, Old English Floor Wax, 3-inONE Oil; BiSoDol, Kolynos Tooth paste, G. Washington Coffee. The com pany also spread into sulfa drugs, serums, vaccines and, recently, into large-scale production of penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Buy, Buy, Buy | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...American Home is about finished buying. It has all the drug com panies it can handle without competing with itself. With a few more food com panies, Alvin Brush can achieve his post war ambition to supply the U.S. citizen's household wants from the cradle to the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Buy, Buy, Buy | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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