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...Tokyo, an inventory of Emperor Hirohito's wardrobe reached the tax office. He was ready for any weather. Items: 16 overcoats, 23 sack suits, six frock coats, five morning coats, two swallowtails, two tuxedos, four uniforms and two kimono-style wraparounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...starting lineups: CRIMSON Visitors Lewis 11:59 Dear Simon C 3565 Dear Karson avc Dear Sack pic Dear Friedman abc Dear Hooper 400 Dear Glinn jl Dear Green 6A Dear Bell naps Dear Leavitt prex Dear Stein dunce...

Author: By C. N. Gridlak, | Title: Crimson Gridders Face Subsidized Princetonians, Predict 23-2 Victory | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

...Folkestone-Boulogne service had only 59 passengers (the day before there had been 404); the Dover-Calais train left with 133 passengers compared with 377 the day before. The same day, the British European Airways Corp. announced that it would have to cut its Continental services and sack one-third of its staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Clang! | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Indianapolis last week Garbage Collector Noah Bowman reported one day's take: one unopened 24-lb. sack of flour, one whole cantaloupe, half a chicken, an unopened loaf of bread, an 8-lb. slab of bacon. Worst offenders: childless couples, who cut two pieces out of a pie and discard the rest. Worst periods: after holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Waste Less | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Buckwheat is highly suspect these days in Britain because it is off the ration and fetches the highest grain price as a scarce and valuable food for poultry, pigs and cattle. At the current price level (80 shillings per 56-lb. sack), Dennis had nearly ?3,000 worth in his 20-acre field. He could not use it all for his 200 chickens and herd of pigs. Was he flouting the County Agricultural Committee's orders so that he could sell the buckwheat in the black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planned Agriculture | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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