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...waves, which women give themselves for $2 or less, had become a vastly profitable industry. The Rexall Drug chain had its own kit. So did Montgomery Ward & Co. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. was about to bring one out. Wailed a Boston beauty-shop owner to a Watt Street Journal reporter: "Don't talk to me about those things; I've lost half my customers already and unless we do something I'll lose the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMETICS: Icy Wave | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Cock. The vast machine which now huffed & puffed for British Socialism was a monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Carriages Upon the Road | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

responds to faint sound waves whose power is measured in quadrillionths of a watt. "The human ear is actually so sensitive that at its best it can almost hear the individual air molecules bump against the eardrum in their random thermal flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Miraculous Instrument | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Donald A. Watt, director of the Experiment in International Living Inc., will discuss summer opportunities in Europe for American students in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooke House Tuesday at 7:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Want to Discuss Summer Jobs | 12/6/1947 | See Source »

Foreign travel, reconstruction work abroad, and communal living as a member of a European family are some of the summer opportunities to be described tonight by Donald Watt, director of the Experiment in International Living, Inc. at 7:30 o'clock in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Watt to Discuss '48 Trip Program | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

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