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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excitement over fifth columnists mounted almost to panic. The Ontario Liquor Control Board officials canceled licenses for the sale of beer and light wines in all German-Canadian clubs; from Vernon, B. C. came reports of the bombing of a Canadian Legion Hall; in East York one thoroughly aroused businessman, offering the Veterans' Home Guard his full cooperation, put at their disposal his entire fleet of 30 milk trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Quisling Fever | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...SCOTT, Businessman C.B. MILLIKAN, Professor of Aeronautics* California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1940 | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...first eight months of World War II, many a U. S. businessman did not strongly react. He strolled through them loudly isolationist, thankful for whatever war orders came his way, half presuming that no future could be worse than the past ten years of Depression and New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Businessman, What Now? | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Last week, for the second time in history, U. S. business found itself face to face with the imminent necessity for industrial mobilization. The shape of that mobilization, already forming in the mind of Franklin Roosevelt, had still to be revealed; but many a businessman, mindful of the fact history repeats itself (with variations), seemed to see a hurricane sweep through the calendar, discovered himself staring at a faded page on which the date was August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Twenty-three Years Afterward | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...last week, many a U. S. businessman was not so sure. In spite of the violent reaction of the stock and commodity markets, it was still too early to measure the exact effect of Hitler's new war on his sales, production, profits. Like a sleeper half-waking, he felt no change, but sensed also that things would be very different in a little while. He had already been nudged by $11,477,316 of educational orders for war goods let so far in fiscal '40 by the U. S. Army and Navy. (Already six times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Businessman, What Now? | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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