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University officials are investigating laundries which served students this year and want to come back next year, a spokesman for the Penguin Cleaners claimed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laundry Claims School Tightens Concessions; Holt Denies Charge | 6/7/1951 | See Source »

...Penguin spokesman maintained, however, that officials here are "cracking, down this year. Before they were just a rubber stamp. Now they're checking our bank credit and looking into all complaints...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laundry Claims School Tightens Concessions; Holt Denies Charge | 6/7/1951 | See Source »

Sunday at the Zoo (Sun. 4:30 p.m., ABC-TV). Live broadcast from the Bronx Zoo's Penguin House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...enough mechanically but were frequently grounded by Arctic snow flurries and overcast. The U.S. Army's snow vehicle, the Weasel, was a dismaying failure; of 100 brand-new Weasels put into action, nearly half broke down in the first five days. The Canadian Army's counterpart, the Penguin, stood up better but was too bulky to maneuver among the pines off the road. Before Sweetbriar was half over, observers were recommending that the Allied armies study the use of Arctic-conditioned dogs, mules and horses for transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Cold War | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...years since Britain wrested Hong Kong from the Chinese during the Opium War, the rocky island which the Chinese contemptuously called a "penguin's nest" has become a traders' and tourists' delight. Despite civil war on the mainland and the Nationalist blockade of China's coast, Hong Kong's trade this year may reach an alltime high. Daily, British and American ships slip into Hong Kong's harbor; nightly, huge motor junks, heavy with Western merchandise, weigh anchor for the ports of Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: The Last Citadel | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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