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...girls, showing feminine cunning much beyond their years, blamed the results on material circumstances. They said that they felt awkward about bidding for dates and when the Harvard man came up first, quite by chance, they were not very enthusiastic. Later on, as the bidding fever spread, prices shot skyhigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bitter Pill | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

...crew. On last week's voyage, the crew was about 30% new to the ship. A few obviously did not know their way about. But, considering that it was a maiden voyage in a sense, surprisingly few hitches developed and the officers were delighted. The crew morale was skyhigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: The Queen | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British jail, or send a British railroad train skyhigh, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at the British betrayers and invaders of your homeland, the Jews of America make a little holiday in their hearts. Not all the Jews, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Umbrella into Cutlass | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...built no hospitals, made no philanthropic gestures. He hated Italians and did his best to make life miserable for them, even though they comprised 65% of Hoboken voters. Under his rule Hoboken taxes went skyhigh. Population fell off by a fifth; building almost ceased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The McFeely | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Fake Bottom. But, across the U.S., skyhigh butter prices had started to sag in mid-December. In Chicago they went down 7?. A fortnight ago Swift & Co. was so sure they were going down that it contracted to sell upward of 50,000 lbs. of butter to state institutions at 69? a lb., starting in January. So the worried league stepped in and bought upward of 500,000 lbs. of butter, kept a false bottom under the New York market until the January price of milk was set where the farmers wanted it. When the league stopped buying, the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Hump? | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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