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What would U.S. women do without silk stockings? Some predicted that they might copy their English sisters, paint their bare legs stocking-color (see cut). A hopeful note in the panicky bedlam was a report of a new stocking made of cotton mesh which "wears like iron" and "looks very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Leg Panic | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Afterwards there was carousing in the Teller House, wide-open gambling elsewhere. Lucius Beebe, the Herald Tribune's syndicated exquisite, was among those present, at one time running about in stocking feet, exclaiming in an interested manner that he had lost his underpants.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Central City | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Damning to Sir Jock was the testimony of his African houseboy, who had seen him take two pistols from his bedroom to his study shortly before the murder; the story of the policeman who found part of a bloody golf stocking and bits of charred sacking in a bonfire Sir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Erroll Murder Case | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Defying laws of supply & demand, coffee has been moving up on all fronts at once: stocks, imports and price (see chart). So Leon Henderson called to his deskside the men who live by coffee. He knew that a number of leading operators had been wisely stocking up, while small fry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tempest in a Coffee Pot | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Because many a coal car will be carrying munitions this winter, Office of Production Management last week urged householders to buy coal now. Expecting a torrent of orders although prices are 50? a ton above last year, coal dealers began stocking up. But most domestic users could not follow suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Business & Finance, Jun. 23, 1941 | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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