Word: three-year
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Manhattan warehouses bulge with a three-year supply of pepper, whereas normally U.S. pepper stocks were never larger than a three-month supply. But the shrewd Manhattan pepper importers, foreseeing that a war with Japan would shut off imports, and taking advantage of low pepper prices, bought and bought, before Pearl Harbor. By December 1941 they had 60,000,000 Ib. in storage...
...were still solid patches of snow. But the miracle had happened. Throughout North Dakota, the big thaw had come. The hard-bitten men who farm the northern tip of the onetime poverty-stricken U.S. "dust bowl" had survived a decade of dust, drought. WPA, grasshoppers, mortgages. Now, after a three-year spell of war and golden weather, they could afford a little fun in town...
...haired auburn-skinned Sergeant Bill had made it. Life, he felt at that moment, had no problems he couldn't lick. He was not married to Norah Carpenter, the English mother of his quadruplets. He had a wife, Eleanor, back in Pittsburgh, whom he had married (after a three-year acquaintance) just before he went overseas. But he had written Eleanor long ago, told her that their marriage had been a mistake, that he was in love with Norah and that she was going to have a baby. Now, he hoped, Eleanor would give him a divorce...
...Crisco, etc.) in Baltimore, contending that P. & G.'s new Ivory soap infringed on Lever's brand-new patented Swan soap. Promptly, P. & G. fired back with a suit of its own, charging that Swan soap infringed on old Ivory soap (TIME, June 22, 1942 ). After a three-year legal struggle, Lever Bros. won its suit in appellate court last December, got ready to battle P. & G. on up into the U.S. Supreme Court. Suddenly both decided to call it quits, dropped all suits in an out-of-court settlement. The terms learned last week: P. & G. will...
Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...