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...Kelly, once thumpingly in favor of clamping on the price lid, put an ear to the ground. Even Chicago was out of meat, and some 40,000 unemployed packinghouse workers wanted to get back to work. Ed rushed to Washington, redder than a cop's undershirt, to join National Chairman Bob Hannegan and members of the Democratic Party's executive committee at a chicken lunch. What, they asked, could be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of Meat | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Carefully Antonio bandaged his eyes with torn bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Rivet on Tony's Neck | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...undershirt with suspenders down, Carl Spaatz, announced a soldierly decision last week: no politics-he would stick to his own game. The General was interviewed while he was shaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Decision | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Small pulled off his shirt and undershirt. "First I guess I better shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Return of Private Small | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...them, a hundred yards or more apart, and as we came closer we could see that they were men and that they were dead. They were bobbing up and down in the water with their arms stretched out ridiculously straight and stiff. We could see a V of white undershirt at their necks and the ripples breaking over the toes of their brogans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WHEN THE SEA SHALL GIVE UP HER DEAD. . | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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