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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason given: Allied commanders should feel free to instruct, exhort or inspire their men without fear of public reverberations. The tactful British did not connect their request in any way with Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s sound-off at a soldiers' club (TIME, May 8), in which he discussed rulership of the postwar world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tact | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...only a short 50 miles behind Imphal runs the little narrow-gauge railroad which was built to connect the tea plantations of Assam with the outer world. The over burdened single track now carries all the supplies for General Stilwell's front, plus goods for delivery to northern Assam airfields, for transport over the Hump to China. If Kawabe cuts this railroad, he will have fixed Stilwell exactly as Wingate's Raiders have fixed the Japanese opposing Stilwell-cut them off from their bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Double Pay-Off on the Border | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...Uncle Joe Stilwell's latest drive-460 miles northeast of Mountbatten's southward push toward Akyab-is to march across northern Burma over some of the world's cruelest, most miasmic terrain, clearing Japs from the path of the new Ledo Road which hopefully will connect with the old Burma Road. Thus eventually a route to China may be opened to supplement supply by airplanes flying the "hump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Ting Hao | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...doll manufacturer on the West Coast is a copper-haired, blue-eyed, thirtyish San Franciscan named Nancy Ann Abbott, who had intended to be a movie star. Last week Miss Abbott sat in unaccustomed peace in her blue-carpeted studio-office: by her orders all the telephone lines that connect Nancy Ann Dressed Dolls Inc. with the world had been disconnected. Her reason: "When that phone rings it means trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Oh, You Beautiful Doll | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...lack of adequate pipelines. The lines were approved by WPB, but frantically opposed by local truckers. Last week Oil Czar Ickes stepped into the fracas, recommended immediate construction of two new pipelines (one to Billings and Laurel refineries in Montana, the other to connect with Stanolind's big line to Salt Lake). When the new lines are pushed through next year, Nettie's homestead will really begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Nettie's Homestead | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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