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Starting her working day in an 8:30 tub, Miss Beatty dictates for half an hour to one of the "angels" (secretaries) who handle her voluminous mail. At breakfast, she confers with staff members, collects ideas from Husband Bill, her No. 1 legman. Grabbing a cab at 10:30, she reaches the studio in time for a brief powwow with program guests. After the program she goes to teas, movies, dinners, the theater, often gets home past midnight and soaks up more information by reading in bed until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mrs. Know-lt-All | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

They didn't kiss; didn't even shake hands. They just looked at each other for a long while, then walked off and got in a cab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Back from the Jap | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Comeback at Continental | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Dead or Alive Judge Joseph Force Crater may or may not have observed the twelfth anniversary of his disappearance. He was last seen entering a cab in Manhattan on August 6, 1930. The city's Missing Persons Bureau still gets false tips on his whereabouts, still keeps his case open. Insurance companies have closed it, have paid his widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Checker Cab Co. is doing a flourishing business in buggy rides in Boston. The Hub city granted its first hitching-post permit in 300 years last week, planned horse troughs at central gas stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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