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There had been two main epicentres of bombing: a large arc in the thickly populated western suburbs of London running through Uxbridge, Staines, Weybridge; and the coastal airports, which the Germans had to render untenable before an invasion would be anything more than a dream. Early in the week the Nazis claimed that three of these airports-Manston, Lympne, Hawkinge-had been blasted out of service. Stories leaked through from London confirming this claim, but were later stoutly denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Into the Heart | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...teak, from tin for canning to quinine for malaria, would become drastically scarce in the U. S. until substitutes could be produced in sufficient quantities. What the U. S. can do about it is limited by the fact that the East Indies lie some 2,000 miles outside the arc of effective U. S. operations. Furthermore, if the U. S. at this juncture tried to press home the recent halfhearted embargo on scrap iron, steel and oil, doing so would probably drive Japan to desperate measures in the Indies, where she could get an alternate supply of oil and some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: The Prize of the Indies | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...hummingbird when in love sways back & forth like a pendulum attached to an invisible wire, in an arc of some twelve feet, and makes a sound "like a bow drawn across cello strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jitterzoo | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...cult of all is the Mighty I AM Presence. Last week I AM's leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I AM in a Jam | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...month hotel suite, of her mother-in-law buying "clothes enough to stock a store" and two $50 corsages of orchids daily, appearing at I AM meetings with a 12-carat diamond ring, an 18-carat diamond breast pin, many another "love gift" from believers. Retorted "Joan of Arc": "We have never asked a human being for a dime to carry on this activity, through the mails or otherwise. . . . We have offered only good and love for America beyond all words to describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I AM in a Jam | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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