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...Music and news broadcasts to brighten "dismal railroad waiting rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Streamlined Railroads | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Back in the Nissen huts, huddled around stoves, blue-jacketed flyers recounted the kill to shipmates. The story would brighten the hundreds of less profitable wave-skipping hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: K for Killing | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...last Alnav certainly did brighten up things around here. The new gold braid is really blinding...

Author: By B. C. C. travelstead, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...armed forces will continue to drain oil from Eastern stocks-Eastern ports are 1,250 miles nearer to North Africa than the oil ports of Texas. Although the outlook for civilians will temporarily brighten in March, for the duration of the war it still is black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Crisis & Hope | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...final clinch--with the right man. Brilliant color was splashed across the stage in the scenery and costumes of nineteenth century West Indies. Several imaginative mechanical devices, along with the panorama of color, attempt to liven up the pace. But color cannot move a stationary figure, nor brighten a static line. Bravura in production must have support in the script, and Mr. Behrman has let everyone down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/28/1942 | See Source »

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