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...Understand Capitalism. By U.S. standards, White found many of Russia's factories unclean and inefficient, its buildings drab and shoddy. "What is missing," he asserts, "is competition. Nobody bothers to put up a striking store front or a beautifully arranged window display. . . . The architect who drew the plans for that dreary workers' apartment had to please not the people who live in it, nor the promoter-owners who hope to keep it rented, but the Government officials. . . . This does not mean that the Russian people do not want beauty ... it means that they have a poor system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Through Kansas Eyes | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...That unclean blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Liberte, Liberte Cherie | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Mexican race, in general, is very unclean, untidy and unsanitary as far as personal health and living conditions are concerned. They seldom bathe, seldom shave. . . . They think nothing of having their dogs, cats, chickens . . . under the same roof with them. We Texans are at least half-civilized and have sense enough to desire cleanliness. I guess that is the reason we don't especially care for them cluttering up our towns and cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...diet of rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes and many other vegetables. They are better developed physically, have more capacity for work and endurance, escape the skeletal defects (rickets) of childhood and have the finest teeth of any race in the world. Dr. Soper added that "the cow is essentially an unclean animal" and in spite of "all strenuous efforts and precautions, the best milk" is a sort of "bacterial soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heretics | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...headquarters in shoddy Nanking. Chiang was engaged in unifying China, ruthlessly and singlemindedly. He was appeasing Japan, so that he might prepare China against Japan. Madame went with him on his campaigns. Their quarters were what they could find-thatched huts, railroad stations, farmhouses-a series of unclean places. She tidied them and wanted to tidy China. She founded the New Life Movement, dedicated to clean living. (Last week Chungking celebrated the ninth anniversary of the New Life Movement with tightened regulations against smoking, eating and spitting in the streets, against casting orange peels into the gutters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Madame | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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