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Exactly. In Washington, OPA defined an "industrial user" of processed foods under rationing: "one who uses a processed food to produce a product that is not a processed food...
...Condition of Man is Volume III of this massive project. Volumes I & II: Technics and Civilization, a history of man as a user of tools, machines and apparatus (TIME, May 7, 1934); The Culture of Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence...
...Aurolese phone with a headpiece like a miniature airtight stove, a snakelike ear trumpet, with a scoop intake, the 1896 "London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with any part of the head skeleton are conducted to the ear. That is one reason why people with dental fillings sometimes receive radio programs through their teeth and why some deaf people like to bite on their Sonotone...
...success are largely due to the beauty of her breasts." The U.S. District Attorney charged that "the product was misrepresented in that the name suggested it was efficacious to cure underdeveloped, atrophied, flabby and pendulous breasts and . . . to develop the firm, well-developed breasts of youth." An abashed user of the capsules, Mrs. Lucille Frances Hinton Moody, 42, bravely testified that she had always been "thin and never fully developed," had taken one package of capsules with no perceptible result. She began on another package just to give Breasts of Youth a break. Somewhere in package...
...will be big and difficult. To fill it Churchill named popular Lord Woolton, Minister of Food since April 1940. Woolton had proved himself an adroit administrator, a skillful user of press, radio, cinema to keep the public informed. Born Frederick James Marquis in Manchester 60 years ago, Lord Woolton is a onetime Liverpool settlement worker who turned to merchandising, became chairman of Lewis's Ltd. (department stores). As a Minister he had achieved the seemingly impossible, made people like him while he tampered with their eating habits...