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Assistant Cook A. M. McKillop was short-handed and in a tearing hurry. His supper menu at the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane, in Salem, called for scrambled eggs. He needed powdered milk to make them. Against the rules he dispatched a kitchen-helper inmate to the catacomb-like cellar to bring him a new supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Fluoride | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...last the truth came out. The kitchen helper seeking the powdered milk had dim-wittedly come back from the wrong storeroom with seven pounds of sodium fluoride roach powder, with which hurried, overworked Cook McKillop had scrambled the eggs. At week's end McKillop and his boss, Mary O'Hare, were booked on charges of involuntary manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death by Fluoride | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...down a Focke-Wulf 190 in the skies over Dieppe. (Modestly he claimed only a "probable" victory, because he did not have time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Names & Faces | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...reasoning, I picked a fundamental trade in one of the defense industries most likely to be doing business as usual when the show is over and the monkey dead. I am a boilermaker's helper at Sun Oil in Marcus Hook, Pa. I like it ... and I seem to have some talent for it. I've lost some fat around the waist and between the ears. And I'm a little proud of the modest bit I'm doing in our war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...tanks and bombers, rather than toothsome girlish smiles, will sell this year's quota of cigarets and soup to the U.S. public. Last week the most important barometer of U.S. advertising art indicated that the long reign of the pretty girl, the adman's most unfailing little helper, was temporarily on the decline. That barometer was the annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of New York, year's biggest event in advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Advertising Art | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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