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...student is a stubborn case, there is a process called indoctrination through labor, which means he is put to work in a gang, on repairing Peking's city walls or digging sewers. Food is rationed at 20 ounces of kaoliang (millet) and one ounce of peanut oil a day, topped with occasional boiled potatoes and cabbage and about two ounces of meat a week. Students follow a 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. routine, broken only by two half-hour rest periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Brain Washing | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...baffled. Some of those on the receiving end of this plethora are convinced that the dining hall department is using them as a testing ground for strange new experiments. Others assert that an old eccentric gentleman left an endowment to provide all future students with his favorite ice creams--peanut brittle, cherry cocoanut, and macaroon...

Author: By Alee I. W. frank, | Title: Brass Tacks | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

...domestic bureaus, three in Canada and three overseas), started the Dallas edition, put in a humor column and developed the W.S.J.'s trademark: the front page project story. These pieces weave together a number of loose news threads into single comprehensive stories on subjects ranging from the peanut industry to U.S. foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Up from Wall Street | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

Caddigan solemnly avers that Captain Video, sponsored by Power House Candy Bar and Skippy Peanut Butter, has an educational bent: "It sets up in a child's mind the idea of what electronics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: 7 M.P.S; Zero 3 | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...hero, the clear-eyed Hopalong. Black Hopalong Cassidy shirts and Hopalong Cassidy pants were simple necessities; the more fashionable put on Hopalong Cassidy pajamas to sleep in a Hopalong Cassidy bed, had Hopalong Cassidy wallpaper (which outsold every design in the U.S. this year), ate Hopalong Cassidy cookies and peanut butter and rode a Hopalong Cassidy bicycle (which has handle bars shaped like steer horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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