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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collect the Profits. The gun soon blasted out of its garage home, forced Nelson to incorporate as the Nelson Specialty Welding Equipment Corp. He borrowed $95,000 from RFC, put up a new plant in a San Leandro cornfield. Soon he was supplying guns to 120 shipyards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Rocket Gunman | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...have been an ardent student of music for almost 50 years, have had a particular passion for military bands ever since I was a kid and my experience in this field ranges from the gutter band of six dilapidated instrumentalists who used to collect pennies on summer evenings in my home town to the best military and concert bands of three continents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Lecuona is a bachelor but a Latin. Asked last week what he saw in the U.S. that he would like to take home, he replied pensively: "I'd like to collect American women-they are the most beautiful in the world-I'd like to make a harem of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cuban Attache | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...listening, in his mess, to a broadcast by Sir Stafford Cripps on What We Are Fighting For. Sir Stafford said we are fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush pops the Devil in the person of Captain Percy Nick (Per-Cynic). The Devil, Heaven's most unsuccessful politician, laughs at the Young Soldier for worrying about Politician Cripps and at all talk of a better world emerging from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Postwar Whirl | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Waves. The widening use of high-intensity sound waves (some high-sounding, some inaudible) was suggested by the University of Minnesota's Professor Karl Sollner. These waves, which can disperse or collect gaseous, liquid or solid particles, are now used to clear the air of fog and smoke, kill or disrupt germs, impregnate aluminum with microscopic lead particles, create fine-grained photographic emulsions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists in Convention | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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