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...greatest show of guaranteed values for home" (Fruit of the Loom); "World's only vacuum cleaner that cleans four ways at once" (Lewyt); "World's most advanced refining developments" (Mobilgas); "World's largest cordage laboratory" (Plymouth); "World's largest-selling denture cleaner" (Poli-dent); "World's strongest folding chair" (Samsonite); "World's thinnest electric shaver" (Schick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: World's Champion Clich | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...merely drinking wine did not make a dent in the surplus, Dillon could run wine in its showers, and the Department of Buildings and Grounds could spray the shrubs with rich, red, life-giving fluid. Naturally, late working students would burn the midnight wine, and clever students would lever be devising new means to use up the surplus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bordeaux to Go | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

...boosted consumption to the hoped-for level. The dairy industry will soon come out with a new strawberry-flavored milk, and there are dozens of relatively small-scale giveaway programs for schools, foreign and domestic relief. But neither strawberries nor gifts can make much of a dent in the growing surplus. As for any large-scale Government disposal program, said Benson, "we were restrained by the complexities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Butter Up | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...first week of the conference had begun in confusion and concern, with the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles striving manfully to stiffen the backbone of the divided West. He made it clear that he. like Presi dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: Black Days | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...they left the American Medical Association reigning supreme, controlling the licencing of physicians and dictating restrictions on public health insurance. Professionally the AMA has undoubtedly maintained the highest standards, but its disciplined financial lobby has consistently exerted pressure against measures which, while giving medical security to more people, might dent the doctors' income...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: Health to All | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

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