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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary...
Razor Blades & Babies. He was visiting Mexico in 1942 when the U.S. and Britain put him on their economic black list (TIME, June 29, 1942). This shut him off from his Swedish empire, but he fortunately made an influential new friend, the late Maximino Avila Camacho, enormously rich and powerful brother of then-President Manuel Avila Camacho. Wenner-Gren also had some spare change with him, $1 or $2 million. With Maximino's help he put the money to work...
...factory, dabbled in real estate, bought interests in banks and insurance companies. He made electric appliances and started a razor-blade factory. He brought powdered milk from Wisconsin, mixed it with water and sugar, and sold it as a milk for Mexican babies. By last year, when the black list expired, he had grown very fond of Mexico, and of his growing empire there...
Nichols raised $500,000 from merchants, manufacturers and civic leaders, started with an abandoned firehouse, later bought five buildings and a 160-acre experimental lot. Harold Vagtborg was hired away from the Armour Research Foundation to head Midwest, and his staff of physicists, chemists, engineers soon had a list of impressive achievements...
...salty Scotsman knows, people who sugar their oatmeal (i.e., the English) have no real appreciation of Bobbie Burns's "halesome parritch." But few Scots were prepared for the blow struck last week against oatmeal. Not only did London ration Scottish oatmeal, but it announced the order in a list concerning sago, tapioca and other plebeian foodstuffs...