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After Pearl Harbor, both Spalding and Wilson turned their precision machinery to the manufacture of small arms and tank helmets. They had gone on making some sports equipment, but the military had snapped up almost 80% of it. Last week, with all arms contracts canceled, the first dribble of postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fore! | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

An if ya love the feel of cash in somebody else's pocket we can fitcha in. If you've got that certain sense of touch that makes a businessman a businessman, the Service News was made for ya. Loin the business from the bottom up. Or ya like the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hot Copy and Journalese, Learn HSN's Complexities | 3/6/1945 | See Source »

But Joe Stilwell could not win the kind of cooperation he needed in high places. He did not get along well with the British: Churchill's policy in the Far East was consistently at variance with U.S. policy. He could not get enough supplies for the Chinese. The trickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crisis | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Originally the strategic bombers had based their plans for defeating Germany on a broad program of precise, ruthless destruction of key industries. But the bombers for that plan were not delivered. A dribble of U.S. bombers came to the European theater; the rest were diverted, many for the pressing needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Looking Backward | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

In one sense, the dribble was worse than none. The bombers that did go into action caught a surprised enemy off guard, shocked him and punished him. But the full pace of attack could not be maintained. The enemy learned how to defend himself. He revised his plane production, developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Looking Backward | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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