Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four of the six slogans on this page may be familiar to you. You will find the fifth on pages 42 and 43 of this issue; the sixth will appear in TIME'S issue of Sept. 12. With the illustrations and the accompanying text they constitute a series of advertisements about advertising that will have appeared in a total of 41,000,000 copies of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE by the time the last advertisement has been published...
...expense in preparing to execute Martha Beck, the "Lonely Hearts" murderess. To accommodate Mrs. Beck-who beat another woman's brains out after plotting the deed with a greasy-haired Romeo named Raymond Fernandez-Sing Sing reopened the woman's wing of the death house and hired four female helpers...
There were cries in the House last week that the reports of isolationism's death had been greatly exaggerated. The charge was more shrill than fair. Congress had come a long way since four months before Pearl Harbor when extension of the draft came within one vote of being defeated...
...when he was 24, Schnering started a candy business with the help of four friends, a kitchen stove and a five-gallon kettle. He gave the business his mother's maiden name, Curtiss. It sputtered at the start for lack of capital; in 1920 it was caught with high-priced inventories amidst falling sugar prices; and in 1929 the crash nearly blew it apart-but each time Schnering kept it stuck together...
...embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...