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...there was also a brighter side. The Nast pattern business was on the upgrade due to fatter consumer paychecks. The Nast $2,000,000 printing and engraving plant runs three shifts (it prints the New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Nation's Business, a half-dozen other magazines). British Vogue's profits ($100,000 last year) are not shown in U.S. statements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Patcevitch for Nast | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Diabetes is more than twice as common among Jews as among Gentiles. Reasons: 1) the incidence of heredity is higher among them, 2) Jews tend to be fatter than other peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet or Die | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...this superservice the Army pays the airlines cost plus a percentage of costs (usually 5 to 10%). This is fatter than the deal talked about last month: cost plus $1. But this week most airline operators were too agog over their new cargo service even to think about profits. Even if the cash is not rolling in as it once did, many operators figure the ASC is good stuff, as an enforced laboratory it has prodded the airlines into wonders they would not dare try themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Magic Carpet | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Thanks to fatter pay envelopes, cigar sales are also higher. The highest-priced cigars-25? each & up-soared a titanic 64% above 1941. Nickel stogie sales rose only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Snuff, Cigars, Cigarets | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Wing Commander Douglas Bader, legless British air ace held by the Germans since last August, waited delivery from Britain of his fifth pair of artificial legs. Bader wrote that being idle made him fat, and the fatter he got, the worse his legs fitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Slaps | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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