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...bartender and tavern keeper is a hard one. Local foam pumpers, already harried by a slew of new restrictions, explain that there just isn't any percentage in a five cent brew as far as they are concerned...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Local Bung-Pullers Foresee No Nickel Beers In Future | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...Yale's varsity coach, made a grand appearance after that. Talking about the various strokes, Kiphuth called Joe Verdeur, Allan Stack, and Ray Reid from the bench. Like trained seals they stood beside the pool. When Kiphuth mentioned the breastroke. Verdeur slithered into the water and chopped it into foam while empathetic little girls on the sidelines ogled. Then Stack plunged in at the mention of the backstroke. Then Reid swam 100-yards freestyle. After a practice 150-yard medley relay, Kiphuth lined them up for a 300-yard relay. He turned from the microphone and called for the timers...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Health Hucksters Ogle Aquacaders | 4/22/1949 | See Source »

...well) and between metal sheets in prefabricated building units. Non-inflammable, it has a specific gravity between .008 and .012; among currently popular insulators, rock wool ranges from .15 to .25, fiber glass from .02 to .15. (Margery Sterling's meringue grades from .12 to .15.) Enough plastic foam to insulate a six-room house can be shipped in a single barrel, saving storage and trucking space, to the site where it will be used. A workman can soon learn to cook it on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Inventive Mind | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Under the Foam. Even with this ideological weapon, Communism could not have won China without violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AID FROM ASIA | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...loses value instead of saving, to reap a quick profit instead of engaging in long-term constructive efforts, to maintain what the monetary economists call 'liquidity of assets,' but in easily salable goods rather than money-all these underlie the corruption. Corruption is only the froth and foam on the crest of this massive ground swell of civic demoralization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: AID FROM ASIA | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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