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...first the Germans did not like canned salmon, said it looked like tan shoe polish. I cruised the American occupied area, suggested to the local grocerymen that they put a can of salmon on the counter with some crackers, ask the customers to sample it, tell them of the fat content. Salmon went well after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Wood, known around Dalton as Sister Kate, made some fancy, fringed spreads for Wanamaker's, by 1929 was producing as many as 600 a day, often had 1,500 at once out in the homes of her tufters. To swank B. Altman in Manhat tan Sister Kate sold $60,000 worth of spreads a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Catherine Evans1 Bedspreads | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...sitting room was the real goal of the Democrats who trod the path of Term III, a tan-walled bedroom with green-spread twin beds, a screen, a telephone wire direct to the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Students may be charged up to $40 by their colleges as a "laboratory fee," get the rest free. Flight instruction is farmed out to some 700 private flying schools, to which CAB pays $325 a student for the elementary course. Most schools use tan dem training planes with a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h., but the Stanford unit is experimenting with a spin-proof plane equipped with tricycle landing gear and other safety features. Its first year completed with only one fatality, CAB was rewarded by a 30% reduction in premiums on the insurance it now carries for every student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholar's Wings | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Democrats. Into the field went organizers. Their success was immediate. By last week they had formed 2,000 units of from seven to 100 workers engaged in innumerable handcraft industries-tan-mng, spinning, weaving, printing, mining, making over 300 types of articles from boots to boats, from candles to light bulbs. Indusco last week boasted 50,000 cooperating members producing at the rate of $6,000,000 (Chinese) worth of goods every month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Industries | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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