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...gores and gussets as any village dressmaker. Because style is a big, profitable business ($1.7 billion a year from U.S. women), the Mayor has tirelessly plugged New York-manufactured dresses, has time & again proclaimed Manhattan the new fashion capital of the world. Last week an expert gave the Little Flower a setback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: New York? Bah! | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...Fifth Army and Britain's flower, the Eighth, threatened Germany from the south. Sardinia and Corsica were stepping stones to southern France and the Rhone Valley route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: GLOBAL COMBAT | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

There was also an assortment of dingbats that could be used by all who felt the first urgings of the adman's decorative instinct: hands with pointing fingers, flower-&-ribbon arrangements, screaming American eagles. Publishers grabbed up these canned illustrations because they forced advertisers to increase the amount of space they bought or cut down the typographical composition in each ad, and therefore the labor cost. Advertisers used them because they liked them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies: 1833-1943 | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down with Meat | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Details. Hess wears civilian clothes, lives in a room 20 ft. by 20 ft. in a wing of a former lunatic asylum. Outside his windows is a spacious lawn and flower beds along the building; they are bright now with the season's last roses and first asters and chrysanthemums. Oaks, elms and beeches surround the grounds. The view reaches to lavender hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE TWILIGHT OF RUDOLF HESS | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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