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...State Health Department and the Red Cross. In Massachusetts, by citizens' request, a Red Cross truck will start collecting at local chapters, around November 15. Municipal laboratories will process the blood, and hospitals and doctors can get it free; a doctor can keep a supply in his icebox if he likes. If the system works, it will be expanded to the rest of Massachusetts. National headquarters has notified Red Cross chapters all over the country that they may collect blood if altruistic citizens wish to go on giving their blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peacetime Plasma | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...stationed at Portsmouth, had been fishing. He had had a date with Faith Coombs, an 18-year-old high-school girl who looked after the Milton children. He was late; Faith was not there. Except for the children upstairs, asleep, the Milton house was empty. Al raided the icebox for some beer and he and James sat down to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Cold Cut. In Denver, a thief raided Lloyd Sherman's icebox, decided not to dally over the food, scrammed with $1,350 that Sherman was preserving in an ice tray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...torrent of war supplies was thinning, partly because of titanic quantities chewed up by the war machine, partly because of manpower shortages in the plants. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes warned the U.S. that the trickle of reconversion to civilian goods might have to be stopped altogether. The new icebox, the new car and the civilian helicopter were no longer just around the corner. Neither was peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...combined efforts of Barnaby, O'Malley and Atlas the Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: O'Malley for Dewey | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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