Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least pretentious store fronts in Harvard Square is that of "Billings and Stover, Apothecaries." Two simple panels, each supporting a wooden mixing jar and twin glasses of chemically colored water, are all that adorn the "show" windows. The fact is that the firm of Billings and Stover doesn't have to advertise or dress up in order to attract customers; it has been going strong ever since...
...Caldecote, who as Sir Thomas Inskip did more to prevent changes in the Anglican prayer book than he did to increase colonial plant production, was sidetracked to Lord Chief Justice. Brought in out of the rain was thin-faced, properly cravated Viscount Cranborne, Anthony Eden's "Foreign Office twin" whose loyalty was at last rewarded when he was named to Lord Caldecote's vacated post as Dominions' Secretary. Sir John Reith, having done little but look sour and unapproachable as Minister of Information and then as Minister of Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable...
...that automen had to keep a sharp lookout too. Their suppliers-processors of steel, lumber, textiles, etc.-are pretty well covered on their raw material needs into the first quarter of 1941. But if pressed too hard by a booming auto industry these suppliers might suddenly decide that the twin-motored Defense and consumer boom is heading them into inventory trouble-trouble, for once, on the short side. In that case, they might all jump into the commodities markets together, attempt to stock up for capacity operations through the end of 1941. Such a forward-buying movement would create...
...vigorously fought the idea. One afternoon last July, Export officials dashed through the halls of their buff-colored downtown Manhattan offices joyfully shouting "We got it!" "It" was an O.K. from the Civil Aeronautics Board to fly the Atlantic (TIME, July 29). But while Export groomed its lone twin-engined Consolidated flying boat for mail and express flights to Europe, Pan Am worked feverishly to keep it on the ground...
...Italy threatened to take over San Marino. Instead, the Fascists tried for years to control its politics. Not until 1932 was there a pro-Fascist majority in the 60-man Grand Council. Not until Federico Gozi (whose family has run San Marino for years) and Salvatore Foschi were elected twin regents last week, and given identical uniforms and equal governing power, did San Marino catch up with World War II. But something else had been forgotten by San Marino. The stonecutter Marinus during his lifetime railed against wars to gain territory, on his deathbed gave his people a creed which...