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Kitchen Commando. In Bloomfield township, Mich., a seemingly endless, six-inch-wide column of black ants streamed into the kitchen of Gunnar Turnquist, who fought them in vain with broom and spray gun, finally won out after blazing away for an hour and a half with a blowtorch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...southern Okinawa the fighting was grim. By week's end the troops had gained from 800 to 1,400 yards, but had established no driving momentum. One village was won and lost again. "Buck" Buckner stuck to his formula-root them out "with blowtorch and corkscrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: One Deal, Three Aces | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...plane gives an amazingly smooth, comfortable ride, with no vibration, little noise. Passengers would hear only the rush of air over the plane's wings; groundlings do not hear the plane at all until it is overhead, when it whooshes past like the blast of a giant blowtorch. Equipped with a pressurized cabin, the plane is expected to cruise at well over 400 m.p.h., and to fly at altitudes above the prewar U.S. record (43,166 ft). Once a pilot gets used to it, it is easier to fly than a fast propeller-driven plane. It is also safer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Jet | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Here comes the cosmic-sized rub. How can the United Nations encourage Germany to be a nation in such a family if they do not know what kind of family it is to be? Here Miss Thompson's clarity is as destructive as a blowtorch: "We" cannot help Germany make up her mind until "we" have made up "ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thompson's Question | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...THESE BONES LIVE-Edward Dahlberg-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A violent blowtorch of poetic anarchy, turned on U.S. literature and such related subjects as the State, materialism, sex, war, tradition, human docility. At its worst it verges on literary hysteria; at its best it has rare eloquence, insight and daring. The book will either bore or infuriate any average law-abider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spring Books | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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