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Last week steel production hit 101% of theoretical capacity. At the same time U.S. steelmasters breathed easier about the future. The 13,000 local salvage com mittee scrap drives so far have turned up 3.2 million tons, with still more to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brighter Steel | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Wild Men. One icy night in 1830, Parisians, passing the famed Comédie- Françise, were terrified to see "a band, wild and bizarre, bearded, hairy, dressed in all fashions save the current ones." The strange creatures were yelling: "We are the Wild Men of art!" "We are the brigands of thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sublime Child | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...choked the wires with intimate WAAC detail, so that U.S. citizens knew all about WAAC food, clothes, beds (short-sheeted by male Army pranksters), orchids, sore feet, the first ride in an Army truck, the lingerie drying racks in the laundry, the cannon at reveille, the embarrassed male non-com who said: "You in the blue dress, step forward," the use of "ma'am," the cigarets in WAAC lockers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: WAACs Go to Camp | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Certain significant developments might have meant that all this smoke did mean a trace of fire. The Fascist War Office burst into feverish activity. Berlin report-ed "important conferences" between Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and General Ettore Bastico, Governor of Libya and Com-mander in Chief of Italian forces there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Axis Fidgets | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Basin Street was conceived as a lampoon of the hot-potato pomposities com mon to the presentation of formal music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Basin Street Blues | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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