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...Field Director Thomas S. Montgomery could hardly miss being nicknamed "Tiny"-he stands 6 ft. 8 ½ in., weighs a whopping 275 Ib. Too oversized to enlist, he squeezed his bulk into a Red Cross uniform, soon became noted on Guadalcanal for his frontline chant: "Chewing gum, candy, popcorn, soda pop. What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This...
...News Chronicle: "The Prime Minister is hardly likely to be what doctors call a good patient." Britons envisaged "Winnie" wan but resplendent in the cream silk pajamas he loves. They imagined him resenting his confinement, glowering at the doctors, harassing the nurses, worrying over state affairs, demanding a Scotch & soda, trying to bribe attendants to bring him a cigar...
Civilians must have 79.1% of 1941's toothbrushes-but only 35.1% of dentifrices (salt and bicarbonate of soda, said Joe Weiner, are just-as-good substitutes). They could do with 58.3% of packaged medicines but not without 107.2% of sanitary napkins ("with women entering industry to a greater extent, it is not possible to revert to improvised methods and materials"). They required no paper facial tissues but 92.1% of toilet paper. (The report said its use "has increased considerably since...
...metal from Michigan brine wells and Texas sea water (TIME, Nov. 17, 1941), bulks largest in the new increased capacity. But in recent months new producers using other processes have swelled the total. Some use variations of the Dow method to recover magnesium from waste liquors of ammonia soda and. potash manufacture. Others are for the first time commercially smelting the widespread U.S. magnesium ores...
...food, always good, but never fancy, attracts a capacity crowd three times a day and a small soda fountain at one end of the counter caters to fair crowd of chronic in-between-mealers. Bill prides himself on his food and says that it is the home cooking that is the secret of his success, but the crowd gathers at meal time no less to hear his colorful chatter than to sample his table d'hote...