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...also have huge investments in Argentine packing houses and creameries in New Zealand. The good news that Minister McIntosh had to tell the home folks was that the British cooperatives were ready to do more business with Canadian cooperatives. They were prepared as a starter to invest in new hog-processing plants in Saskatchewan. At present their import needs are at least 1,500,000 hogs a year-one-sixth of Canada's total production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: SASKATCHEWAN: Cooperation | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Vitamin U is a name for a substance present in grass, hog stomach, peanuts and other ill-assorted foods. Lieut. Colonel Garnett Cheney of the Army Medical Corps thinks that stomach ulcers may come from lack of it. He once gave gastric ulcers to chicks with the help of a Uless diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: U is for Ulcers | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, representing bacteria, loosen a lower tooth, look for a ladder to knock out an upper. Enter the Dentist. Enter also a lady puppet in a tubelike dress, a gentleman with hog-bristled pate. Senorita La Pasta (toothpaste) and Senor El Cepillo (toothbrush) kill the dental gremlins. In a quick change of scene the magnified mouth vanishes, its possessor reappears. An apple-cheeked urchin named Comino, he promises to brush his teeth forever after. As the curtain drops, his audience presumably vows to do just as Comino does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Puppet Pedagogy | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...time for greatness. The general level of our two possible Presidential candidates leaves one with a sickening feeling of being hamstrung and hog-tied by the two Chicago conventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1944 | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Against the overwhelming power of the Allied landing in Normandy, Rommel and the German Army were swamped. Historians must still decide whether Rommel was hog-tied by his superior. Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, whether Allied sea and air superiority covered any possible German move, or whether the Desert Fox, for once, was hesitant and bumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Death on the Downgrade | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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