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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was reason to believe last week that a U-boat fleet, bigger and more dangerous than ever, was moving westward from the middle Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Here They Come | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...third may be even bigger: there is plenty of paper in Sweden and Det Besta ur Reader's Digest's ultimate circulation will be limited only by its popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swedes Like It | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Without sacrificing its output of cargo ships, the U.S. also is putting emphasis on a new class of escorts which are smaller than modern destroyers, bigger and faster than corvettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: From Better to Worse | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...days after Timoshenko's breakthrough, the Russians won an even bigger victory-the capture of Rzhev. It was from Rzhev, 140 miles northwest of Moscow, that the Germans began the powerful drive on Russia's capital in the autumn of 1941 which almost landed Adolf Hitler inside the Kremlin. It was the city which, above all others, Hitler had to hold if he hoped to try again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Victory in the North | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...merger is no surprise. It was in the cards back in December 1941 when little Vultee bought a 34% stock interest in much bigger Consolidated. The present deal will merge the two companies completely, thus eliminate all corporate boundaries, permit free interchange of all materials, manpower, parts and blueprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Giant | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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