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Sirs: ANENT COL. VISKNISKKl'S APOPLECTIC DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TOWEL CURTAILMENT AT PHILADELPHIA EVENING LEDGER, IT MAY HAVE BEEN SHEER COINCIDENCE BUT SHORTLY AFTER THE COLONEL WENT TO THE NEW YORK JOURNAL IN 1930 . . . THE CITY ROOM WASHROOM WAS TRANSFORMED. LIQUID SOAP DISPENSERS WERE RIPPED OUT OF THE WASHBASINS, AND RAGGED CHUNKS OF DIRTY BROWN LAUNDRY SOAP LEFT IN THEIR PLACES. THE CLOTH HAND TOWEL MACHINES WERE WRENCHED FROM THE WALLS. AND SPIKES WERE DRIVEN ON WHICH WERE HOOKED TORN BATCHES OF COARSE BROWN WRAPPING PAPER FOR TOWELS. THE LIGHT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CEILING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...three in India (horses, cotton mills), three in Europe and the rest of the world. For tax reasons, his visits to England are carefully spaced. Lately he has upped the frequency of his visits to the U. S., upped his investments here, notably in plastics. More than most Shanghailanders, liquid, diversified Sir Victor dares speak his mind. In San Francisco last week he spoke it on Japanese-American trade relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sassoon Again | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...mirrors for thousands of uses from microscopes to cocktail bars. The curious fact about the industry was that it had never been able to make a substantial improvement on Liebig's method. In most of the 500 U. S. plants, workmen with porcelain pitchers tediously hand-poured the liquid on flat plates of glass, had to wait a half-hour or more for the solution (silver ammonium nitrate and Rochelle Epsom salts) to deposit its silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Done with Mirrors | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia's Hole | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...jiggling minarets, and their domes wobbled. All around people shrieked, or stupidly asked what was happening. Animals stampeded. Human legs grew weak, but when people fell in the snow, they crawled and slithered in a desperate struggle to get to open fields. All around the white ground seemed liquid and rough as a choppy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: 16 Miles Under | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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