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...ahead with a new slogan to bedevil the Labor government. Beginning this week, its packages will carry a cartoon showing "Mr. Cube" pointing to sugar pouring from a gaping hole in a sugar box. The caption: "Nationalization will make a hole in your pocket and a hole in my packet...
...turn-of-the-century Geographic was a stodgy scientific journal, written with old-fashioned portentousness, and floundering in debt. Grosvenor stuck to the pattern for six years. One day in 1905, a packet of photographs from Tibet landed on his desk. Grosvenor was fascinated by the rugged Tibetan scenery and the Dalai Lama's palace. On an impulse, he spread the pictures across eleven pages. The issue created a sensation: almost by accident, Grosvenor had discovered how to make geography popular...
...mark for wages, rent, etc. Explained a Western statement this week: "Real wages have no longer depended on a worker's ability or energy, but on the accident of whether his employer had been in a position to include a substantial proportion of West marks in his wage packet. Those inequalities have thrown increasing strain upon the economic and social structure of the city...
...from the U.S. to Britain and then, by blacked-out Mosquito bomber, across the North Sea at night into Sweden. There German officers passing through could read about Allied victories, and the Japanese embassy dutifully cabled TIME's entire contents to Tokyo each week. We never lost a packet of film through enemy action...
...chilly street corner in London's threadbare Hammersmith, a Tory soapboxer looked out over the crowd of housewives, clerks and workingmen. "What's left in your wage packet after this government has taken its share of taxes and national insurance?" he shouted. "Aw, stuff a sock in it!" yelled a heckler in the crowd and promptly launched into a speech of his own. He had spent six'weeks in a hospital, his wife had a baby, his mother got spectacles and new dentures, his brother got a long-needed truss, and "all under this Labor government...