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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government-issue 3.2 beer is an innocuous, vaguely sudsy fluid which can be closely approximated by steeping a yeast cake and a tea leaf in a gallon of any good, mild barley water. But when U.S. prohibitionists heard that the Army was issuing it to the front-line soldiers in Korea at the rate of a can a day, they reacted almost as if G.I.s were being taught the opium habit.* As a result, the Department of Defense nervously directed General MacArthur to cut off the free beer issue immediately...
...down a 600-item check list to be certain every one of their maze of controls is working-and will work in the air. The engineer operates from a console of 120 dials and gadgets, spends nearly half of every hour logging their readings. Just figuring the miles-per-gallon on a 5,000-ft. climb keeps him scribbling for 20 minutes. "A man can just about keep up with his work if the flight is ideal and not a damn thing goes wrong," an engineer explained. "If anything slips it's a rat race all the way back...
Idaho. Harriet ("Babe") Hansen, who at 50 is an experienced rancher, ex-sergeant in the WAC, forest ranger, and wilderness guide, won the Republican nomination for sheriff of Boise County. Said sturdy "Babe," who wears a 10-gallon hat, reportedly can pick the eye out of a grouse at 100 yds., and has shot 75 mountain lions: "I think I'm qualified...
...orders it was placing, but some familiar names popped up in the news. Manhattan Dressmaker Henry Rosenfeld, who made uniforms for World War II Marine women, last week got an order for 244,000 summer uniforms for women reserves called to active duty. Nesco, Inc., maker of the five-gallon gasoline "blitz cans" familiar to U.S. soldiers the world over, prepared to turn out 150,000 a month on the later of two contracts totaling $1,700,000. The Switlik Parachute Co. had been told to double its plant facilities, speed production of a $5,000,000 contract...
...extra cent a pack-and other major tobacco companies followed. Some textile prices had risen as much as 22%.* Emerson and Du Mont announced higher prices for their television sets. Rubber climbed upward and tire manufacturers increased their prices 5% to 12½%. Gasoline was up 2? a gallon...