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Summer's onset trapped many a U.S. vacationist flat on his own front porch. The plain citizen was marooned at home, with a well-stuffed wallet. He had plenty of easy-come money to be easygoing with, and not a thrilling thing to spend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Vacations, 1943 | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...sitting alone on an oriental rug gazing moodily into his crystal ball. His great white turban was wrapped around his head and a green jewel pinned on the front of it gleamed in the semi-darkness. He was in a deep trance, but I crinkled the bills in my wallet and he snapped...

Author: By Ensign H. S. bailey, | Title: ELECTRONICS SCHOOL | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

...Property. In Santa Fe, Thomas E. Ball reported to police the loss of his wallet, which contained his birth certificate, draft registration card, Social Security card, driver's license, gas ration book, sugar & coffee ration book, and one $2 bill which he carried as a good luck charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...births are in families on relief, or living on a wage inadequate to provide for a growing family. Because doctors are forbidden by law to give contraceptive advice thousands of families through sheer innocence multiply more rapidly than they should for a mother's health or a breadwinner's wallet. Slum victims in or out of the city need medical advice as much as privileged residential dwellers. But in Boston already seven birth control clinics have been closed, while people of higher incomes can casually make a doctor's appointment behind closed doors for the same information deprived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control | 10/27/1942 | See Source »

...whose shoe the string had stuck. In St. Paul, officers of the Moose Lodge learned their safe had been stolen when police returned it. In Cleveland, Richard Pearse slept undisturbed in his car while thieves took three wheels and a spare, removed his wrist watch from his arm, one wallet from the inside of his coat, another from his hip pocket. In Denver, burglars left a note in Edward V. Dunklee's house: "Sir: Your beer is putrid and your cigars are terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

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