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Frying Pans & Slip Covers. Alpha particles had been sucked into the hot air heating system, so the whole house was suspect. But the bulky portable counter, which can only operate close to the source of radiation, couldn't fit into every corner. Taking no chances, the decontamination crew followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Housecleaning | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

DeVore, who runs his little hardware store with the help of his wife and three clerks, had just taken a long look at the Office of Price Stabilization's order controlling hardware store prices. OPS wants every hardware store in the U.S. to supply a list of its housewares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Hell With It | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

"Many Birds Will Come." The man credited with solving it was bearded Orlando Villas Boas, who had parleyed with the Kalapalos for five years. From the first, the tribesmen admitted knowing Ingueleze, as they called Fawcett, but always insisted that their neighbors, the Iarumas, had murdered him. In time the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Skull & Bones | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

There were minor hitches. Some shopkeepers demurred at showing abstractions, gave in when they learned that abstractions drew the biggest crowds. The painters, too, showed pride; two abstractionists withdrew their pictures from the jammed display window of a 5 & 10? store, explaining they had no wish to compete with pots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pots, Pans & Paintings | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

Hardest hit by the new order will be cooks and bakers, who have grown accustomed to flocks of helpers and assistants. Many will now find themselves scouring their own pans and peeling their own spuds. Generals (some with as many as five aides and orderlies) will be cut down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Goldbrick Blues | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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