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...Finance. It was the first time the two had met. Mr. Faherty was politely told that he was being replaced by Mr. McKibbin. (There had, in the meantime, been an all-important telephone call to Colonel McCormick, who apparently approved.) Said George McKibbin later: "Mr. Faherty was a perfect peach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Gone Again Faherty | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...haul men, munitions and supplies from battleships and transports on to enemy shores, thus speed and simplify dangerous invasion jobs. Donald looked around for a manufacturer, finally handed the order to nearby Food Machinery Corp. (spray pumps, fruit washers, etc.), which normally makes nothing more deadly than a peach pitter, but had made parts for Roebling's experimental models. Today Food Machinery alone has orders for over $50,000,000 worth of Alligators, and hundreds of others are being made by Borg-Warner, Graham-Paige Motors and St. Louis Car Co. More than 100 Alligators already have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Alligators by Roebling | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Sitting in a cool grove of rubber trees, the Australians ravenously ate meat loaf with mashed potatoes, peach shortcake, bread and tea. Only then, as the tropic dusk came swiftly, did one Australian speak. "Give me a few days," he said, "and I'll be ready for another go at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Time for Silence | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...papers for helping race-track bookies by printing racing news. He predicted that the press would probably continue to "belittle, ridicule and oppose" his antigambling campaign. In a letter to the News he wrote: "I am sorry you have been misled into believing that I asked boys to peach on their fathers. I did not. The papers that said I did lied and knew they were lying when they said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Caesar | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Paramount studios decided to do a picture titled Women of Aberdeen, glorifying the lives of dusty women workers at Maryland's explosive Army ordnance proving ground, chose for its star diminutive, peach-sundae-cheeked Cinemacutie Susan Hayward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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