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...Boston store has given SPB one moneymaking example. It bought surplus gas masks from SPB. From rubber tubes on the mask, it made bicycle handlebar covers; from the glass lenses it made workshop goggles; by painting the canisters it sold them as powder-puff holders. From what was left it made toy gas masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURPLUS PROPERTY: Uncle Sam, Merchant | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...guess is that the American girl, being a very wise creature, will reconcile herself to the trend of G.I. thought and blossom out in all the natural God-given beauty that she inherently has-but has for too long hidden under a mask of artificiality. Let us, at least, hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 16, 1945 | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New MacArthur Strategy | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent as the breath of an angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 4, 1945 | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...satisfactory. On the one hand Miss Garson sometimes depends too heavily on the limited charms of a brogue, a bustle and a charade-like servant's toddle; on the other, as if by weary obligation, she sometimes lets her face become MGM's official Etruscan mask. Between these hazards, however, she walks a wide and pleasant road, with evident delight and considerable power to communicate it. Some of her love scenes, especially, are worthy of a much better film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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