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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squeeze. On all sides, a highly professional squeeze play had begun...
Behind the Headlines. That was how the story emerged in the headlines. The dry, unread manpower statistics are just as dramatic: last winter, when the shortage talk had barely begun, was the all-time peak employment period for nonagricultural labor; ever since then the trend has been down (see chart...
...London R.A.F. leaders assessed the damage. Their job was to kill the city; they had begun it with 6,000 tons of bombs in less than a fortnight. Soberly, they estimated that another 44,000 tons would be needed, and in the immediate future, if Berlin was to be denied recovery...
...Post 43, the country's richest (famed members: Adolphe Menjou, Conrad Nagel) footed all bills, gave Post 591 the use of its building. The Legion, outdistanced at the start by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the drive for World War II members (TIME, Oct. 4), had now begun to sign them up in earnest...
Worms & Snails. The M. & St. L. was a rackety, poor man's railroad long before it slipped into receivership in 1923. Begun in the '70s by Minneapolitans eager to challenge Chicago's monopoly of Midwestern railroading, the line stretched itself into 1,690 miles of jerkwater track running north & south across Minnesota and Iowa, with branches to Peoria and Leola, S. Dak. It never got to St. Louis-and from the day its first track was laid, it was more often in than out of the courts. Its debt was too high, its farm traffic too meager...