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Last week in Manhattan hog-wild Tennessee Eastman gave a coming-out party for its latest creation: Tenite II-a slightly refined Tenite I extruded in long, thin, narrow strips and strings. On display were Tennessee Eastman's debutantes: plastic chairs, tables, love seats, lazy boys of Tenite II for use in sun rooms, on verandas and lawns. Woven in strips or strings on rattan frames, the plastic furniture is (Eastman boast) impervious to sun, rain, fading. It is made by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co. out of strips and strings extruded by Detroit Macoid Corp. from Tennessee Eastman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLASTICS: Test-Tube Love Seat | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...blackballed by the Quarryville, Pa. Slumbering Ground Hog Lodge. After pondering reports that Mr. Roosevelt is kind to ground hogs, the Lodge decided that he would be too busy to be an active member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White Week | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...October, they got a ten-pound Poland China shoat, six weeks old. Three hundred science pupils took a vote, decided to nickname him Fat Stuff. They made him a nice clean pen with a big trough, running water and a straw bed. They watched him get three vaccinations against hog diseases. They took delight in feeding him tidbits, fed him so well that in three months he grew to 120 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fat Stuff | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...last week 125 pupils gathered dutifully in their schoolyard to watch Fat Stuff's last lesson. First a health inspector examined Fat Stuff. Then he gave the silent children a lecture on hog inspection. Then he slit Fat Stuff's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fat Stuff | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Lionel Hampden goes hog wild again on this two finger piano stuff in "I Found A New Baby." god help anybody who plays in his new band when it gets going this spring--he believes in the fastest tempos I've heard from a jam band in a long time. It isn't good saying, only attraction to it is the tempo...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/26/1940 | See Source »

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