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Bricks and Stuff. Pleased with the camouflage job, the Government asked F. & K. to turn out 300,000 adobe bricks to build bomb shelters, protective blast walls around important installations. Although the firm had never made a brick, it took over a Sacramento brickyard, finished the contract in jig time, is now building up a stockpile. The Government next wanted barracks and housing projects painted. F. & K. painted them. Fortnight ago President Kleiser and Vice President Foster got together in their San Francisco offices, rosily viewed the balance sheet. For the year ended March 31, gross income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Out of the Blackout | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...before the season was opened on Japs and Nazis. The British were the first to use it in military ammunition: after Dunkirk, Western built a plant for England. Since then, more than a billion rounds have been loaded with the new powder. Factories in the U.S. went up in jig time because the process needed only materials and equipment available locally-often assembled by local boilermakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Keep Your Powder Wet | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Prentice Cooper-who fondles his pet parrot "Laura" while transacting State business-called in the legislators, demanded their votes. From Memphis came the affirmative nod of white-haired Democratic Boss Ed Crump. After that it was just a breeze; the legislators repealed the law in jig time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lawmakers | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...case went to Cleveland Municipal Court nine times, to the Court of Appeals five times, even got to the Ohio Supreme Court. Last week the rivals emerged with a draw. Thereupon Mr. Petropulos promptly evicted Mr. Diakandru. In jig-time, Mr. Diakandru evicted Mr. Petropulos. All afternoon they trudged heavily across the street, toting pots & pans, stoves, stools, counters, ice cream, beer bottles. Suddenly a lawyer appeared with a new court order: the evictions were all off; the rivals must move right back into their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Demetrios, I Hate You | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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