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From A. F. H. W. offices in Philadelphia to the trade press also went free contributions of cartoons, jingles. Samples: 1) A studious-looking, bespectacled girl wearing a black brassiére, polka dot panties, ill-fitting stockings. The jingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Limbs | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...French girl of the middle classes and up is on no Nordic romantic pedestal but serene in her father's provision of a suitable marriage portion practically guaranteed to attract an acceptable fiance. Or if there is no money for a dot then she rationally faces the alternatives of spinsterhood in its more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...passengers at Buffalo, N. Y., sunburned the roof of his mouth watching the test flights of a new pursuit ship that the U. S. Army Air Corps called XP-39. Slim as a lance, it ripped across the field faster than anything they had ever seen, faded to a dot against the sky before the thunder of its exhaust had echoed off the hangar walls. And when it came home to roost, at the hangar of Bell Aircraft Corp., it waddled up to the apron on three wheels with its tail in the air, something no pursuit ship had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Airacobra | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Spokane, Wash. (U.P.)--The collegiate spirit prevailed when small towns that dot the inland empire were first named. Across the Idaho-Washington state line in heavily timbered country are seven tiny villages, named by a group of college students. Their names are Wellesley, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Pur due, and Stanford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Backwoods Towns Names | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

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