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...Story. In New Britain, Conn., Ralph Prims met a man with a dog, claimed the dog was his own. "Prove it," said the stranger. Holding a match in front of the dog's mouth, Prims said: "Blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Stranger still was the case of the U.S. The country which had been officially taught to hope to the last that it would not have to fight had gone into the war on a dollar basis. On the theory that it could buy its way out of trouble, the U.S. was throwing its wealth and production on the side of the Allies when the Jap struck at Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Items from the Balance Sheet | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...Bulletin, always known for small type and small starting salaries, is no stranger to bigness-it has the biggest presses in the U.S., biggest home delivery, some of the biggest executive salaries in the business. But the editorial Big Stick is still a stranger to the biggest evening newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quiet Queen | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...hope that the Edison market price would bounce up, A.L. & T. strategists looked around for a sound citizen to head the Edison setup. Their eye fell on tough, diplomatic Prentiss M. Brown, no stranger to Michigan public utilities. Before election to Congress in 1932, he spent seven years as counsel for northern Michigan's Edison Sault Electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Rescue | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Halifax one day last week, a tall, grey-eyed Scottish stranger called on Nova Scotia Premier A. Stirling MacMillan. The stranger announced that he was "glad to be home." He would, he said, like to buy part of Nova Scotia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: NOVA SCOTIA: The Baron Wants to Buy | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

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