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Target: a Powerhouse. The landing on Arawe was General MacArthur's biggest show since the Japs were turned back from Australia's doorstep. But in the counterdrive on the enemy's Oceania domain it was not yet more than, an important nibble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Party at Arawe | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...paddy fields of Bengal, the December rice crop is lush and full. But while it swells, the stricken Bengal peasant sits mutely on his doorstep. He is too benumbed by famine to reap the paddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: While the Paddy Ripens | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Last week the Navy and the Army moved up to Japan's outer doorstep in the Central Pacific (see map). Simultaneously, a new Central Pacific Command was created; at its head Pacific Commander in Chief Admiral Chester W. Nimitz put a 57-year-old Hoosier, Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, veteran of the Battle of Midway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: To New Lines | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...beat the darned caterpillars to the middle of this piece of paper, maybe we'll have a column this week. They're waltzing around our doorstep right now, looking for something else to eat, having completely consumed the front walls of Mellon, Chase and adjacent dorms. For a while there Monday we thought they ate our laundry, but it finally arrove, khakis and whites all rolled up in the usual knots. Oh winter, where is thy sting...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

...find he's a different man from you in many ways, but in all ways quite as good." When six-year-old Nawnim, "hardened with food snatched from dogs and salted with sand and ants" was deserted by his father and delivered on Oscar's doorstep, howling and stinking, Uncle Oscar took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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