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This week, as U. S. retail sales reached their annual peak, U. S. corporate largess did the same. Directors shook the Christmas tree, brought down a shower of bonuses, raises, extra dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Elastic Stocking | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...bared his heroic feet for Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into electric fans. Done up in a shower cap with windshield wiper, rubber gloves and raincoat, Moran explained his theory of release, let fly at an electric fan. There was a dull plop. The man at the fan had neglected to turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vox Pop | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

Floodwaters crept over Dunster House last night as Malcolm McNair, Jr. '42 planted his feet on the drain of his shower and stood motionless for over sixty minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRIPPING FUNSTER DUNKS DUNSTER, DEFIES DRAIN | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...schools. Little Britons were surprised to find that most U. S. pupils wear no school uniforms. Skinnier than their U. S. contemporaries, they found the food much better than in British schools, quickly put on weight. They missed tea, got used to drinking milk instead, were delighted with unaccustomed shower baths and pencil sharpeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New School Tie | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...That Harvard team hits hard--they were smacking in there all the time," commented Michigan's one-man team, Tom Harmon, as he came dripping out of the shower after Saturday's contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW'S ELEVEN "HIT HARD" ADMITS HARMON AFTER GAINING 123 YARDS | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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