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This activity is certain to hamper postwar German attempts to recapture Latin American drug markets. But last week Sterling's stocky, blue-eyed. 46-year-old President James Hill jr. proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Sterling's Economic Warfare | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

BILL RYAN'S familiar wail, "Never again" will still echo in the East End of Grays for the move order applied mostly to the lads in Middle Grays. . . It's not a play on words for when HOMER SMITH got to bat the other day he really did clout a "home: in that game between Seven and Six. . . he made Seven come eleven. . . ALTER OLLEN ran another Smoker for Charlie the other nite and he surely must have made enough money by now to get married. . . We are still waiting for a week to go by when BURWELL PALM will...

Author: By Melvin Parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/6/1943 | See Source »

...three runs in the first frame, the Crimson nipned away at the Coast Guard lead run by run, and Bob Slattery's two-run home run to left in the fifth put the Stahlmen ahead 5 to 4. But Lou Belanger replied in the sixth with a circuit clout to left center to equalize matters again. Harvard failed to score in the sixth...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Nine Faces Pesky, Others Here In Battle With Amherst Trainees Friday | 4/28/1943 | See Source »

Outfielders Brooks Heath and Wally Flynn led the Harvard attack with three bingles apiece. Heath also contributed a run to the effort and single-handedly averted a possible BU rally in the eighth with a circus catch of an enemy clout to left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine to Face Brown After Defeating B.U. | 4/21/1943 | See Source »

Cheyenne Indians, in complete tribal regalia, picketed the U.S. post office at Watonga, Okla. Inside was a mural by Edith Mahier of the University of Oklahoma, depicting their ancestors under the reign of Chief Roman Nose. Explained 71-year-old Chief Red Bird: "Picture not like Roman Nose. Breech clout too short, look like Navajo. Roman Nose's baby look like stumpy pig. No good. It stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mural Picketed | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

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