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Negro soldiers in a small café were celebrating with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor the bullet ricocheted into the soldier's leg. M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Battle of Phoenix | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Long Ago | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Back in the twenties Berlin looked at the world through gin-colored glasses, as did everyone else, and wrote some fine, lasting songs. However phony their sentiment, they aren't quite as threadbare and overworked as their younger brothers...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

Dividend. In Chicago, Gin Moy was convicted of pinching a couple of showgirls, caught sight of them in court, ran over and pinched them again, went off to jail laughing happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...gin becomes synthetic rubber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/3/1942 | See Source »

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