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Of this, $5,300,000 in cash and kind has gone to the British. Some items: 100 ambulances; 10,000 cases of clothes and knitted goods; 21 X-ray units; 57,500 pairs of boots and shoes; 5,100 cots (with bedding) for air-raid shelters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Give Us the Tools-- | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

The box represented a woman's abdomen. Inside, homemade in pink and red, were models of all the organs involved in childbirth. The pelvic cavity was an oval fruit basket. The walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Made Plain | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

One day last week flying columns of female New Yorkers stormed the hosiery counters of New York City department and specialty stores for the first big public sale of glassy, synthetic, much-publicized nylon stockings. In the words of one harassed clerk, it was "a madhouse." Elsewhere, in most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Synthetic Sale | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

By last week, a U. S. Citizen who had neither danced, knitted, orated, played bridge, bingo, banqueted or just shelled out for Finland was simply nowhere socially. The U. S. mood had changed: Isolationism had been thrown away with last year's calendar. On its March engagement pad, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: For Finland | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

"Bundles for Britain" is a prominent U. S. agency whose products, all knitted, all for the British Navy, are distributed through a London depot supervised by Mrs. Winston Churchill. To date: five and a half tons of bundles. British War Relief Society, Inc., sanctioned by Great Britain's Consul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYMPATHY FRONT: Bundling | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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