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...packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above last year. In Broadway's flashy, pink-satined Latin Quarter, soldiers and visiting firemen ogle a sexy two-hour show, fork over a smacking $25,000 weekly for the look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Cash in the Night | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Safety engineers, who must also see that a plant is well ventilated and cleaned, urge workers to use new industrial skin creams (e.g., Du Font's "Pro-Tek"), which have been concocted to guard the skin from irritating chemicals. Insurance companies, which often have to fork over for industrial dermatoses, also encourage their use. Sales have doubled in the last year, and girls leave aircraft plants with smooth hands, after degreasing plane parts all day. But most doctors sniff at these industrial cosmetics. They claim that cleanliness will do the same trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Occupational Itch | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...simple bows and fancy war clubs like those of the Austronesians, fork-headed arrows like those of the Philippine aborigines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stone Age Relics | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Bonham is no strike-out specialist like Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean or Lefty Grove. He has neither a fireball nor a tantalizing curve. But two weapons he can rely on are control and a freak pitch known as a fork ball (a slow ball that sinks and sometimes breaks away). Oldtimers say Bonham's fork ball can't compare with the one Bullet Joe Bush used to throw for the Athletics and Yankees. Still, used as a change-of-pace ball, Tiny's forker has fooled plenty of batters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thirteenth | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Coventry. London, Manchester. Ow I wish I could come up with a Jerry plane. I would show them. Today my steward put my knife spoon and fork in bucket of water to wash then forgot they were there, chooked water overboard with them in it. I could of chooked im overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: At Sea: Voice From Grimsby | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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