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Farmers and farm editors chortled. A full-page Wartime Prices and Trade Board anti-inflation ad showed a cow being milked on the wrong side (the cow's right side is her right side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: City Cow | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nice Man | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...gayal is an animal that looks like a cow, it's happy when stirring up a row. It's mean and ugly living in a zoo, though home in Assam it's been known to moo. Yesterday up in The Bronx was born what-if-it can keep hale-will soon grow up to be a gayal."-The New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fit to Print | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Each of the 10,000 men of the 359th Brigade cultivates five acres of land. There is one cow per ten soldiers, one pig per two soldiers, one sheep or goat per soldier.This arrangement gives each a daily ration of 2 Ibs. of grain, 2 Ibs.of vegetables, and each gets 6 lbs. of meat per month. The rations of most of Chiang Kai-shek's troops are not so good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beyond China's Sorrow | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of"); left out connectives ("Save my hero, O Hero [that] savest"). Though sensory details delighted him ("skies of couple color, as a brinded cow"), his principal passion was the relation of man and nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet's Poet | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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