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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Keep the Change | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...Streeter still had doubts about how the company would do as the auto market became more competitive. So far, K-F has made 113,694 cars and sold them all. But some K-F dealers are running into difficulties because of K-F's prices. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that K-F dealers offer the highest trade-in allowances on used cars, and thus, in effect, cut their K-F prices to stimulate sales. But neither Henry Kaiser nor his smart son Edgar was worried. They hope to turn out another 44,000 cars this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Joy at Willow Run | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Also sticking in the pigtails of the Indian newsmen is the fake issue of their journal, distributed Saturday morning last November by a radical Cambridge handbill and announcing...

Author: By W. SEATON Faircaton, | Title: Green Newsmen Tighten Beanies But 23-2 Odds Predict Indian Noses Will Dent Sod | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...Louis' muscles are not merely bulgy; they are noisy. For, no matter how softly he moves, man in motion is audible: to a sufficiently delicate ear, his muscles rustle and rumble. In the current issue of the Acoustical Society of America's Journal, two audio-scientists, Drs. Wilfred J. Brogden and George A. Miller, describe these minute muscular sounds and how they were first heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quiet, Please! | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...liquor ads have ever appeared in the Curtis magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman). Not that Curtis is anti-liquor. "All of our directors," President Walter D. Fuller once informed a Curtis Publishing Co. stockholder, "serve liquor moderately in their homes." But liquor ads, Curtis figured, would hurt its readership among church, school, farm and women's groups who never touch the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What'll It Be, Gents? | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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