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This novel about Fascist Italy is by no means a perfect book, but in some respects it may be a great one. It will mean little to those who use politics to butter their daily bread and not much to those for whom politics is the breath of life. But it will mean much to those who prefer to be human beings despite all politics. They may be appalled by the price. In Ignazio Silone's judgment, the price has not changed since Gospel days: he who would gain his own soul must first lose the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bomb or Pearl? | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Along with tanks and planes, the U.S. has sent Russia 10,000 Ford trucks, 500,000 rolls of adhesive tape, 100 medical books, tin, wheat, flour, butter, steel, aviation gasoline, machine tools and machinery to drill oil wells, laundry and toilet soap, sulfa drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Peasant and His Land | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...people want Washington to quit treating them as if they were children subject to tantrums -to give them the truth, tell them the chips are down and that from now on it's guns. Not guns and butter, just guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE PEOPLE? | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Undergraduates, as occasional guests, are agreeably surprised and satisfied by the food. The members receive for lunch, which costs them 35 cents, meat, three vegetables, unlimited bread and butter, coffee and milk, and dessert. At dinner, for which the members pay 50 cents, soup and salad are added. Featuring the meals is the milk, which comes from Government Professor Carl J. Friedrich's dairy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cooperative Summer Dining Hall Is Open | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

Dainties. In London, British cooks at U.S. Army Headquarters did what they could to improvise "American dishes" for the officers, came up with items that included cream of peanut-butter soup, canned corn with syrup, macaroni salad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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