Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vest & a Smile. With the white upper crust, however, Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered...
...Street & Smith, which had folded Pic to give its press time and paper to Mademoiselle's Living (TIME, Oct. 11), decided to stop Living for a while. The slick-paper, homemaking magazine, an offshoot of Mademoiselle, hit a top circulation of 275,000. But S. & S. thought it was too costly to produce, not practical enough in its approach. In the fall, the editors plan to try Living again...
...patients (one 70, the other 60) had died and five others were ill, apparently from the salt. Dr. Fishbein asked newspapers and radio stations to issue warnings. Planning to reclassify lithium chloride as a drug instead of as a special dietary food, FDA heard of the deaths and warned: "Stop using this dangerous poison at once...
...when he runs. On St. Valentine's Day at Hialeah Park last week, the Goose flew as he had never flown before. Flashing by the seven-furlong marker in 1:21 1/5 (world-record time), Coaltown was ten lengths in front and still pulling away. At the mile, stop watches caught him in 1:34 1/5 (a shade faster than Equipoise's world record set at Arlington Park...
Edgar also took steps to stop the $30-3-ton premium on steel which K-F has been paying. He made a deal to finance the building of a new open-hearth furnace for Republic Steel, buy all the output for five years at market prices. Under the agreement, Republic would continue to sublet the blast furnace at Cleveland which K-F had leased from the Government (TIME, Sept. 6), thus ending a squabble between the two companies and the War Assets Administration...