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...heart tonics (distilled water for liquids, common starch for pills), the call went up for Tom and his 31-man "Mercury" detective agency. Going after a gang that he called "hairy-gutted animals-worse than Murder Inc.," Tom recorded conversations with suspects, using a tiny microphone worn like a wristwatch, snapped telephoto pictures with cameras guyed on field glasses, rigged up a periscope on the radio aerial of his car to enable him to peek inside suspects' homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Alias Mike Hammer | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

Tripe. In Burlington, Vt., an agricultural journal listed the contents of the stomach of a slaughtered bull: safety pins, bobby pins, cartridge casings, two rubber heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...cities, freedom has gone further. The average girl of any class is taller and stronger than was her mother at the same age. She wears earrings, permanents her hair and paints her nails, smokes, wears a wristwatch, Western dresses, nylon stockings and high heels. She may live in an apartment house that has also radically changed Japanese life. Formerly, a wife was chained to her home, not only by her duties, but by fear of fire if the wood-and-paper house was left unattended. Rice cooking used to take an hour before serving; now the housewife merely fills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Girl from Outside | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Alarm Wristwatch. The only U.S.-made alarm wristwatch was put on sale by General Time Corp.'s Westclox. Shock resistant, with luminous dial and hands, it is considerably cheaper than foreign-made models. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could be sold at $74.95-and the retailer would make the usual profit. A watchmaker preticketed a lady's wristwatch at $200, a Detroit store sold the watch for $17.00. A blanket manufacturer offered retailers $24.95-list blankets that a retailer sold at $14.95; comparative shopping showed that they were not worth $10.00. One major mattress maker now gives his retailers a choice of three different list prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHONY PRICE-CUTTING: Threat to Advertising Confidence | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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