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Rabaul has the legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW GUINEA: King Move Um Capital | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...speed in building, the Navy today has work afoot in ten of its own yards, more than 125 yards of private contractors. Before its yard expansion is finished, it will have laid out $800,000,000 for plant and equipment. From Tacoma, Wash, to Bath, Me., its working crews are on the go in three shifts 24 hours a day, 48 hours a week. The number of men employed has increased from 167,274 to 375,000, by next summer will reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Fantastic Goal | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Have heard of your waterless plight. Crimson extends invitation to all Mount Holyoke girls to come to Cambridge and share our showers. Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. Now when you feel like girls in soap ads and when bathless Yalemen won't come within ten feet of you, Harvard wants to make friends. Our showers are big enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TO HELP HOLYOKE TO H2O | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

...baptize the decree in the usual blood bath, Nazis sentenced and shot Viggo Hansteen, chief legal adviser to Norwegian trade unions, and Rolf Vickstroem, secretary of the Transport Union. Four others were sentenced to imprisonment and hard labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: Norway Starts Something | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...kissed us good night," reported Caroline, 12, and Eddie, 9. "They meant it kindly, but it is not very nice being kissed by people you don't know. Especially ladies who get on committees." Eddie was baffled by Toronto mores. Delighted with his first experience in a shower bath, he invited a little English refugee girl to share it with him. A refugee committee woman found them splashing happily together, howled in dismay: "You dirty little wretches! Little boys and girls don't do that sort of thing in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: You're Welcome | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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