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Men in Furs. "The doctors made their rounds in fur overcoats covered by white gowns. . . . The wounded often had to lie in bed fully dressed. [I] frequently had to do blood transfusions in a fur coat and a fur hat and keep [my] hands warm by putting them in warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Surgeons of Leningrad | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

"Spurious luxury increased. The midinette insisted on her silk stockings and her cheap furs in which rabbit predominated. Perfumers made fortunes. ... At the same time it was forgotten that through the centuries the Church had ordered Sunday as a day of rest. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Giraud Speaks | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

She had to deny a rumor that she had stuffed paper in her shoes because the soles were thinning. But she was not the least bit disturbed by appearing every day in the same hat (cherry red, trimmed with red and green birds' wings) and the same coat (black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: I Shall Tell My Husband | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

> New excise taxes showed that in the tenth month after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. people bought $8,500,000 worth of electrical appliances, $5,200,000 worth of refrigerators and air conditioners. They also loaded up with $55,000,000 worth of jewelry, $23,000,000 worth of furs and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart of the Times | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Fenimore Cooper Stories. | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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