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...some 2,500 agents to try once more to hold its price line against the black market. In New York City, where about two out of every three butcher shops closed, some black marketeers showed utter contempt for OPA's toughness. They bluntly told OPA agents to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Ceiling Zero | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Many of these were efforts to evict unwanted tenants.† In New Jersey an apartment-owner addressed his eight tenants: "It is with the greatest of pleasure that I announce . . . I'm giving you one month's notice to vacate, get out, in other words to scram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Wait & See | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...towel . . . was a strikingly beautiful white woman . . . glaring at him out of aqua marine blue eyes. . . . A cascade of golden blonde hair . . . fell over her face. . . . As will sometimes happen in moments of stress, his gaze focused . . . upon a . . . tiny mole, high up on her left breast. " Scram!" she cried, dashing a bucket of water over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flynn's First Fling | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Mencken and G. B. Shaw. Some of its headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muggs' Birthday | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Awarded the D.S.M. to Harry Hopkins. ¶Went to his first ball game as President. ¶ Received a new fez, signifying that he is a Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine, Kansas City; and a three-sided desk gadget which has YES on one side, NO on the second, and SCRAM on the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Out-dealing the New Deal? | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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