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When World War II began, many Americans were 1917-wise, outsmarted themselves by buying up staple groceries in which they expected a famine. A squirrel's panic (TIME, Sept. 23) forced price rises and even trade shortages in flour, canned goods, lard, and especially sugar, which rose from 4.40? to 5.75? a pound in one week. But by last week few housewives were laying by sugar any more. And speculators wondered whether sugar is still a good short sale. The beet price had fallen to a new all-time low, just .04? below the 3.426? a pound bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Sugar Cloudy | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

With all the audacity of a squirrel that finds a nut and then points to it instead of hiding it, diminutive Portugal last week rashly called attention to herself and her empire-fourth largest area in the world-by proclaiming a six-month festival to celebrate the Sooth anniversary of her independence and the tercentenary of her restoration following 60 years under Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Audacious Pageant | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...lions had to gag down meat faked to seem fishy with a coating of cod-liver oil. Heating was reduced, and Felix the rhinoceros caught cold. Several zoos asked citizens to "adopt" animals by paying their keep. Typical rates: giant panda, ?2 a week; elephant or okapi, 30 shillings; squirrel, dormouse or hummingbird, one shilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Animal Raid Precautions | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

According to Biographer Smith, in 1775 young Henry Dearborn, hearing of a battle at Lexington, closed his doctor's office in Nottingham, N. H., shouldered his squirrel rifle and marched off to the Revolutionary War-the beginning of a valorous career which made him a lieutenant colonel before he was mustered out in 1783. He became a major general of the militia, a Massachusetts Congressman, and, in the Cabinet of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Father Dearborn | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Most of the panels are a strange blend of allegory and realism. Sample melange: Red Tape, in which people are entangled in a clocklike cobweb with a steer's skull at its centre. A squirrel gnaws at the skull, while from the right the late great Justice Holmes, astride a white charger, levels a lance at the cobweb. In other panels: a ticker-tape Pied Piper leading men to a gambling table, a gangster having a manicure, Humanity sitting in the skeleton of the Past. Critics praised what they could, or like the New York Times's Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Struggle for Justice | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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