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Most unlikely case: the convict who concealed, in his colon, "a tool box containing a piece of gun barrel, a screw driver, two hack saws, a boring syringe, a file, several coins, thread and tallow." Instead of hacking or boring his way to freedom, the ingenious convict escaped his cell by dying of bowel obstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Punishment | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...industry) are losing money in the price squeeze, losses which are not made up by the Government's subsidy. Something should be done for them.* But the others, notably the Big Four (Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy) are making up losses on meat through the sale of byproducts, tallow, glue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEAT: Profits & Sin | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Enough for My Family | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Promoter Kame's main source of profit. Swapping went on furiously all day and most of the night; some horses changed hands a dozen times. Included were some good work horses, a few riding horses. But most were plugs worth less than $25; some were bought by tallow-rendering companies, some as food for mink farms. Horse traders expect to be gypped but always hope to gyp the other fellow a little more. Said one dealer of a runty mare he had just bought: "I've owned her a hundred times in the last couple of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MODERN DAVID HARUMS | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Department's list of 784 commodities, silver's importance is rated at .07 of 1%. The chewing gum industry's output is twice as valuable as silver mining. Silver though supported, productionwise is only as important as grape jelly, or wire nails, or packers' prime tallow, or anhydrous ammonia. Silver is less important than linoleum, glue, leather gloves, strawberries, spaghetti, nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hi-Yo, Silver! | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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