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The new cut is the result of OPA's freehanded passing of the sugar bowl last summer. As one OPAster ruefully said: "We went overboard on the allowances for home canning and I'm afraid the housewives kind of did us dirt. Their good intentions just went wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bottom of the Bowl | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

Medicine Man. When Mr. May was an Illinois farm boy, his parents wanted him to be a preacher. He compromised by joining Evangelist Billy Sunday, and learned from him the technique of the freehanded overstatement. Later, May took a two-week course in "business engineering," and went to work as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Efficiency Plus | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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