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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They met at Laval's request, somewhere near his estate at Chateldon in Randan Forest, twelve miles southwest of Vichy. Pierre Laval made the old Marshal a dazzling offer: if Laval were taken into the Vichy Government, the Nazis would free all French prisoners of war, allow the Vichy Government to move to Paris, greatly reduce France's occupation costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Laval v. Leahy | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Speaking to the Conservative Party the same day, Winston Churchill had said: "I cannot allow, while I bear chief responsibility, a propaganda to disturb the Army, which is now so strong and solid, or to weaken the confidence of the country and the armed forces in the quality and character of our devoted corps of officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Grows Bold | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...Studio 8-H in Radio City was designed by engineers and cursed by music-lovers. Built to stifle reverberation, it was acoustically satisfactory for variety shows, bad for symphony concerts. (The best auditoriums allow tones to bound about and scatter until they attain depth, warmth.) Toscanini accepted 8-H uncomplainingly, but admitted it was "too sec." Musicritics complained about the studio's woolliness. Last fall, when Leopold Stokowski took over the NBC Symphony, he balked at playing in Studio 8-H, induced NBC to accept an inconvenient, expensive substitute: moving the orchestra to Manhattan's Cosmopolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Floodlighting Sound | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...auto dealers last week were hotter than Model-T radiators. They have been selling only a fraction of the number of new cars OPA's quotas allow-and total cars available in 1942 are only 9% of last year's sales. The National Automobile Dealers Association made a cross-country check of 9,000 local rationing boards, was shocked to find new-car sales even worse than most dealers figured. In the first 20-25 days of rationing, not a single new car was sold in Sioux Falls, S.D., Lewiston, Idaho, Council Bluffs, Iowa, many other towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: New Cars for Sale | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...clause of the Smith bill limited all profits to 6% for any tax period, which might break the back of a company with a long-term contract, would allow other companies with short-term contracts to make fantastic profits. The bill was smothered as it drew first breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 40-Hour Week | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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