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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...regulations prostitutes are outlawed, but Tokyo's brothels, thinly disguised as "teahouses," still cater to an average of 500 customers nightly. Last week, each leaning on an attendant and trying her best to walk in the traditional graceful gait of her calling, under the weight of a 6-lb. wig and suffocatingly embroidered antique costume, two of Tokyo's leading "waitresses" led a regiment of lantern-bearers, bell-ringers, apprentice prostitutes and child attendants through the ancient three-hour procession. "We're certainly not trying to revive interest in prostitution," explained a spokesman for Tokyo...
Klinger worked in the OPA's Manhattan office. There, said the Government, he let some black-market friends buy 6,000,000 Ibs. of sugar at the OPA price of $6.38 a 100-lb. bag, sell it to soft-drink manufacturers for as much as $25 a bag. In return, said the Government, Klinger & friends collected $5 a bag in kickbacks, clearing an estimated $300,000. Last week a federal grand jury indicted Klinger, three other OPA officials and three sugar dealers, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Maximum penalty: $10,000 in fines and two years in jail...
Kennedy had made a mistake in onions. Six months ago, when onions were bringing $5 per 50-lb. bag wholesale in Chicago, he thought prices would go higher and held on to his crop. When prices began to tumble instead, Kennedy sold two-thirds of his onions, making just about enough to break even on the whole crop. A fortnight ago, when prices sank to under 50? a bag (TIME, April 3), less than it would cost him to ship them to market, Kennedy had no choice but to destroy the remainder of his crop. Said he: "You might just...
...drive-in theater season about to begin, the Hilltop Drive-In near Perryville, Mo. planned to lure the customers by installing the added attraction of two monkeys in a cage. In Champaign, 111., the Twin City Drive-In prepared to put in another piece of bait: a 300-lb. bear...
...farmers had held their onions off the market in hopes that last autumn's cloud-high prices would reach the stratosphere (TIME, Sept. 26). But when the prices started to drop, farmers hurriedly dumped their holdings. Under the avalanche, prices collapsed. From a high of $5.05 a 50-lb. sack last September, onions skidded to 44? last week, lowest price since trading began on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...