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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unconditional surrender-to destroy the myth of German invincibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rx for Security | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Cantioning that tax adjustments present delicate political and economic problems. Professor Butters warns that discriminatory tax reductions will destroy customary competitive positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASIER CORPORATE TAXATION NECESSARY, ADVISES BUTTERS | 1/18/1944 | See Source »

...cross-Channel invasion will take only "a few months" to destroy Germany, forecast Vice President Wallace. This bit of punditry came 48 hours after President Roosevelt told the nation that "a quick end to the war [is] false reasoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cross-Talk | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Army appealed to ornithologists, who scratched their heads. Cats were imported, but large-winged boobies routed the cats. Dr. James Chapin, associate curator of the American Museum of Natural History, made a special trip. His uncomplicated solution was to destroy their eggs until the birds gave up, nested elsewhere. Last week ATC personnel ate eggs, walked on eggs, had the situation at Wideawake "fairly well" in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Boobies on the Runway | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...object of these operations is to destroy the German land, air and sea forces, and Germany's war industry; in short, to defeat Germany on the battlefronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Known & Unknown | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

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