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...might more likely have been dropped from a flying cow. WILLIAM S. GAFFNEY C/O Fleet P.O. San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...annual spending on such things (to about $2,000,000), GSA sheepishly admitted that it had overbought a bit: its warehouses are full of brand-new furniture. It has 2,000 walnut desks stacked high in an old mill and several acres of filing cabinets gathering dust in three cow barns, an abandoned slaughterhouse and a mental hospital that happens to have some extra space. Also on hand, ready for the call: 10,000 pink & blue dustcloths, 818 cans of salted and unsalted nuts, 12,000 cakes of "slightly scented" soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUREAUCRACY: Ready for Anything | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Conscience & Cow Dung. Only 17 miles from the city of Madras (pop. 1,000,000) is the village of Alamadi (pop. 1,500); until this year, Alamadi had no medical service at all. Then some students of Stanley Medical College picked Alamadi as a place to set up a Sunday clinic. Said one: "We thought it quixotic that there should be so much cutthroat competition among city doctors, while a few miles away peasants died of tetanus because they thought cow dung would cure an abscess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Village Clinic | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...preliminary run around the track without anyone having to go on the record. Southern Democrats and Republicans, in the saddle most of the time, had ridden down some of the Administration's most cherished amendments, substituted some of their own. One-the dream of Bob Poage, a drawling cow-countryman from Waco, Texas-would put all prices on a cost-plus basis, thus guaranteeing industry a profit on every item it makes, no matter how basically unprofitable any item might be. The Poage amendment, besides requiring more accountants than there are in the world (said Price Controller Mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: From the Stomach | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Customer's Beef. In Tulsa, Okla., after they advertised that they would give a cow to anyone who could decipher the OPS meat regulations, Grocers Wes & "Choo" Phillips tried to head off an insistent housewife whose 850-word explanation was approved by the local OPS, finally compromised, awarded her a side of choice steer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 16, 1951 | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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