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...Hank Greenberg, Cleveland's Bob Feller, Washington's Cecil Travis, Philadelphia's Sam Chapman-and many another great ballplayer will follow them to war before the season ends. But draft or no draft, U.S. baseball fans were down with their perennial spring fever: trying to dope out how 16 big-league teams will finish in far-off October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Again | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...Treasury is also forbidden by law to sell its silver below $1.29 an ounce. Washington lawyers managed to dope out a way to lend-lease it. The way: use silver instead of copper for bus bars in electric generating plants and in the "pot lines" of aluminum and magnesium plants. A typical large bus bar would take a chunk of silver 24 feet long, eight inches wide, three-fourths of an inch thick-weighing 650 lb. After the war the silver, little or none the worse for wear, could be replaced by copper again and returned to West Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Silver Bullets and Silver Ballots | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...Harvard," says the E.I.D.L. dope sheet, "will base its hopes for a good season on pitchers Burgy Ayres and Mort Waldstein, but even if they are in form, the Crimson may have trouble finding sufficient hitting power to provide them with a fairly steady supply of runs...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Nine Seeks to Upset Experts' Pessimism | 4/8/1942 | See Source »

...defeats, the danger, the urgency of the hour had all hit home. The nation was astir. The old played-out words-Defense Program; A Small Army for Defense; Defend America by Aiding the Allies-now sounded like mumblings in a dream. The dope of complacency had worn off. The country began to look at its heritage and its destiny with better understanding; a people that had almost cravenly debated "neutrality" now looked forward to the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Let's Begin to Strike | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Cessna Aircraft in Kansas women saw, sand, nail and glue wood; sew, stretch on and dope the covering fabric; install the instrument board and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Woman Behind the Man | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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