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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dalmia is Mr. Big No. 3 of Indian Big Business.* He owns six newspapers, an airline, a big insurance company, a bank and most of India's cement factories. He also has four wives. Last month Businessman Dalmia, a Hindu, summoned the press to pink lemonade, vanilla ice cream and green gage plums on the lawn of his big house in New Delhi. Then he read a 2,500-word statement. "I ask that people treat the cow and look after it as well as they look after their mother."† Soon thereafter, his six newspapers began referring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Live Cows | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Nostalgic G.I.s in the audience licked their PX ice cream cones and marveled that a man could be so close to home 6,000 miles away. Their tabi-soxer* friends chewed gum (U.S. style) and snickered (Japanese style) at the strange way some of their sisters made a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Mysterious West | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Foot] is beautiful as a star it's a dream repainted in watercolors on a pearl ... his whole body is full of the light of a thousand lighted electric bulbs-his trousers are inflated with all the perfumes of Arabia his hands are transparent peace and pistachio ice cream-the oysters of his eyes enclose suspended gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Food, Sex & Volcanoes | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...some, the cream on the boom was curdling. Eversharp Inc., which turned in a dazzling $1,074,274 last year in its second quarter, was down to $550,575. The rubber industry also had begun to feel the pinch of overproduction (TIME, June 23). Example: General Tire & Rubber Co.'s six months' earnings of $2,650,912 were down from last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Brer Rabbit's Snare | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Just to Make Sure. In Los Angeles, Rel Brown could not remember if strawberries & cream were on his diet, telephoned his wife in London to find out that they were. Cost of phone call: $94; cost of breakfast with the strawberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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