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Bing Crosby (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Second of Bing's new transcribed shows; Spike Jones and his City Slickers, guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 21, 1946 | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...Texas to New York. Another thought tough Texas jackrabbits could be profitably run to eastern markets since "anything becomes a delicacy if it is moved far enough." Even harried WAA officials took time out to join in the fun. Their proposal: start carbonated water through the pipes in Texas, spike it with bourbon in Kentucky, route the piped highballs through the "ice mines of Pennsylvania, and so to the bars of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inch by Inch | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Because the new Government seemed to spike Perón's dream of an Argentine-dominated Bloque Austral (Southern Bloc), Argentina conceivably might sponsor a counterrevolution. Or she could cut off vital exports to Bolivia of wheat and beef. But the U.S., too, had ^n economic wedge. A new Bolivian tin contract was coming up; the U.S. was expected to go through with its plan to pay some 10% more for Bolivia's chief export...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Bloque Blocked | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

When Lenin died in 1924, an autopsy was performed to spike rumors that he had died of syphilis or poison. Because the autopsy cut the blood vessels through which embalming fluid ordinarily is forced, some new technique had to be devised if Lenin was to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tattooed Mummy | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...when you can find it. Some of the boys used to swipe quarts of milk and then go to the gas station to beg gasoline for a spike. Milk isn't left on doorsteps any more. It costs 20? a quart and the jerks at the gas stations ain't very friendly any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Hard Times on Skid Row | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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