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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As a researcher at Kansas State Agricultural College in the early '20s, Dr. Hisaw noticed a puzzling fact about the pocket gopher: the animal, for turning around in its narrow burrow, has a very narrow pelvis, and its compressed pubic bones come together in a bridge (called the symphysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: If a Gopher Can Do It ... | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Such bombing has not taken place in previous years because the air fleets required to deliver it were not in existence. But even three months ago such a tonnage could not have been dropped in one week. For three months ago the Luftwaffe was fighting every raid with all it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Clear Track to Berlin | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

The ships they deliver are mostly trainers (few WASPs have qualified as pilots of four-engine bombers). But as pilots of small ships they are in some ways better than men. A trip in a trainer may take weeks because of adverse weather. The WASPs sweat it out with womanly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Saved from Official Fate | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

The nation's most industrious candidate for Vice President last week ingeniously saved himself considerable wear, tear and carfare. As part of his campaign to re-elect himself and resuscitate the New Deal, Vice President Wallace had engaged to deliver a speech at the American Business Congress in New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tailored Talk | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Then Chile's Ambassador, Conrado Ríos Gallardo, presented a note which he "was most happy to deliver." His Government declared that the Farrell regime was legal, required no new recognition. The hemisphere front was also a flop, cracked by a supposedly friendly, democratic country to which the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Two Flops | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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