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...settin' in a drive-in having a Coke, When in drove a roadster with a half-inch stroke; The body was channeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Real Hogbear | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...After four months of loafing around the campus Coke machines, a U.S. Secret Service agent pounced on three University of Wyoming students and hustled them off to jail. Their crime: shrinking pennies to dime-size in a one-minute bath of nitric acid. The law conceded that only about $20 worth of Cokes had been stolen in all, and that as many as 20 other students had done the same thing, but it still charged the three pranksters with mutilating U.S. currency. Bail was set at $1,000 apiece. Maximum penalty: a $2,000 fine and five years in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...France, the University of Poitiers, in La Rochelle, and the Institute de Touraine in Tours are ecellent in their presentation of the language, literature, and civilization of France. Other Universities are good, with the exception of those in Paris and Strasbourg, which are bogged down with coke, hamburgers, and white shoes...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Summer Travel Offers Work, Study Chances | 3/25/1952 | See Source »

There is always space for Harvard news in the nation's papers. Not just any Harvard news, though; only things like gold fish swallowing, face slapping, and coke-bottle piling rate publicity. And angry editorials, indignant letters, or both usually follow in the news items wake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Item | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

West German coal production is increasing by leaps & bounds (since 1946, output has jumped 300%). But though the International Ruhr Authority still earmarks 25% of German output for export (mainly to France), French steelmen complain that Ruhr shipments of coke and coal have fallen by 25% since 1949. And German nationalists are whipping up resentment against compulsory coal exports: they accuse the Allies of sending Ruhr coal abroad, and compelling Germany to import more expensive U.S. coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Coal Is the Tyrant | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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