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...have our teeth in the cost of living and we are going to hold on like a bull pup," said OPA's plough-chinned Chester Bowles, giving notice that he means to hold prices close to 1942 levels. At the same time he promised to "hold down the cost of food, clothing and rent . . . establish far more effective controls in building materials and house construction . . . see to it that more low-priced women's and children's clothing comes on the market at easy-to-understand, ceiling prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Price Lid | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz was found to have failed on one job: he did not instill his own qualities of cool calm-under-fire into his grey schnauzer pup, Mak-who heard Guam antiaircraft batteries open up in practice firing near the beach where the Admiral was swimming, took to the hills, was listed as missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Fuller Explanation | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...Going Home." Miss Delano and Miss Suckley rode with her in the car which took them down to the railroad later that morning. The black dog the President called "Pup"-the Scottie Fala-lay atx her feet. Just ahead of their car rolled the hearse which carried the body of the man she had married 40 years ago. Ahead marched a band from Ft. Benning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Long Day | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

They tackled the first warehouse, "trying it for size." It went very well. Ammo cans sizzled and pup-pupped, flames licked heavenward. They fused the second warehouse. Mortar shells began whistling around them. Amid explosion and fire Gleason's furies danced, hugging their TNT as they ran. With gasoline, alcohol and straw they fed the holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: The Destroyers | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...many weeks before, Tuffy had been a wobbly, anonymous pup. A group of First Army signalmen adopted him, gave him a name and tidbits from their rations. Tuffy went along with them to the eastern marches of Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Tough on Tuffy | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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