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It's Those Women Sirs: In news items and editorials, I fail to find any statement giving the major cause of the cigaret shortage, which is the tremendous increase in smoking by women. One sees on the streets, in public buildings, in common carriers, females of all ages puffing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1945 | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Another effective enemy weapon: a 45-ton modernized tank-destroyer. It carried the same 88-mm. high-velocity gun as the Royal Tiger, but in a heavily armored boxlike compartment.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tiger to Tame | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

¶ One of many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Anniversary Report | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

¶ When the West Virginia was raised from the shallow water into which she sank, a record of tragedy and horror was chalked on one of her bulkheads. The record showed that three men who had been trapped in a watertight compartment had lived from that Sunday morning until the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Anniversary Report | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

The evacuation procession included petits bourgeois in well-worn but well-tailored suits; artisans and laborers in ragged, patched work clothes; automobiles out of gas, loaded with entire families and drawn by horses; an ice-cream vendor's velocipede, with a baby squalling in the ice-cream compartment; people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Strange Truce | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

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