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This show proved decidedly significant. Months ago the Soviet Clothing Trust called upon comrades throughout the entire Soviet Union to submit clothing designs and, if possible, samples. Last week the show was thrown open and its major style message was instantly evident: trousers for women!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Stars & Gas Masks | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Although he had been closely guarded ever since someone tried to shoot him near Melbourne two years ago, there were rumors last week that Phar Lap had been poisoned, murdered. The police of Menlo Park ordered his oats examined. For three days, Government chemists analyzed samples of grass and leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wink of the Sky | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Like a proud, fussy host, President Robert Maynard ("Bob'') Hutchins of the University of Chicago settled a batch of students in his new "College" last autumn (TIME, Sept. 21). Ever since, the College has much resembled a high-brow houseparty. You work as you go, study or roister as you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago Party | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Heavily emphasized was the assertion that the new store was not "a branch shop with samples, but a complete Fifth Avenue store." Patrons were invited to extend their charge accounts from the Manhattan store, were promised the same service, the same fashions as in town. Opening its arms to 500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fifth Avenue to Greenwich | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

To cater to suburban trade, large retailers have for some time been experimenting with two kinds of small stores. Chain stores have been highly successful in selling standardized merchandise at low prices for cash. Branch stores (subsidiaries of a large central unit, as distinguished from chains of small units) hitherto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fifth Avenue to Greenwich | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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