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...under a platform, jerk a string that made the balls bounce out if they happened to drop into the bucket. He got 25? a night. When he asked for 50? and was refused, he went lightly on the string, cost the boss many a duck. He passed on to soda jerking, pharmacy, shoe selling, then started a one-room Bricklaying College of America with an unemployed Assyrian bricklayer as the faculty. Moving into show business he ran a road show whose star was a trained penguin, wrote gags for Hellzapoppinjays Olsen & Johnson. For the Chicago World's Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mantle of Barnum | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...vaginal tract a majority of girls. Sex of children should be controlled, then, by adjusting the acid balance of the vagina. After some animal experiments, Dr. Unterberger tried the method on humans, claimed to have "determined" the birth of 74 boys. His method: mild vaginal douches of alkaline baking soda and water before conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baking-Soda Boys | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Daily News has also followed carefully independent breeding experiments in the U. S. on cats, dogs, horses, cows, and even mink. But experiments on human beings have been few and far between, for most doctors find it hard to take the baking soda seriously. Fortnight ago, Captain Patterson hailed a young couple in The Bronx, Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Hamton, who tried lactic acid and baking soda douches, and got what they ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baking-Soda Boys | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...aides told McLane: "We are taking over. . . . You won't do anything we want you to do and we are taking over. . . . You got to go away." McLane went. In this simple manner, said he, Nitti gangsters had taken over Chicago waiters, hotel clerks, hat-check girls, cooks, soda jerkers, organized the "Local Joint Board & Council of Chicago," and obliged all union members to pay tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Skeleton Uncloseted | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...each customer's dollar plunked down on grocery counters for potatoes, farmers get 47?, for apples 33?, for dairy products 46?, for corn flakes 20?, for soda crackers 8?. Of each dollar spent for food a quarter of a century ago, the farmer received 52 to 60?; in recent years his share seldom has exceeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Price-Raising War | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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