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...thin air. Their wants are simple. If they have any money to spare, they sew it up in a piece of cowhide and bury it. A storekeeper who has dealt with them for years gives this comprehensive list of the things they buy: cotton cloth for shirts, plow points, dye, thread, needles, old automobile tires to be cut into sandals, sugar, chocolate, rice, macaroni, aspirin, second-hand sewing machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Republic up in the Air | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

According to Jimmy Farrell, who is in charge of equipment, the jerseys are made of a rayon-mixture which doesn't take a dye too well; hence, the "pink" color. Come cooler weather, the darker Crimson jerseys will be used once again...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Six Crimson Coaches Scout Varsity's Future Opponents | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...SANITY, i.e., no bats in belfry. ††† "Earnest money got by leaving deposits on old clothes" in five letters. Answer: DYEST. Ximenes explained that deposits on old clothes refers to dye; to get money is to earn; earn out of earnest leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crossword King | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...farther down than the Eiffel Tower is up. Three other spelunkers followed him. They established a camp in the big vault, perhaps 900 feet long, half as wide, and 300 feet high. They explored the even deeper caverns that sloped away from the shaft. They threw yellow-green dye into a rushing underground river to test their theory that this was the same river which surged out of the ground three miles away. (It was.) They looked for new forms of subterranean life, such as the cockroaches they found last year, almost white and without eyes. Last week, after four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cave Crazy | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

...three: Du Pont, Union Carbide, Allied Chemical & Dye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: The Next 1 ,000 Years | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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