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...aluminumware industry has laid off 3,413 of its 16,000 employes. An 0PM-industry conference over this was a complete dud. It would take unavailable new equipment, the industry decided, even to switch over to manufacture stainless steelware, let alone to get into defense production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Poverty in Boom | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...grenade was a dud. Edison's reply: the leadership was not in the gift of Hague, but lay with the people, from whom he was willing to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Lightning by Edison | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...Defense workers: Every dud which leaves a munitions factory is a shot against Hitler. Do your best to see that there are among you many manufacturers of duds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: War of Flying Words | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...definitive statement of U.S. foreign policy in the world today was not one but a three-gun salvo, directed not only toward Europe, but toward Latin America and Asia as well. At week's end, as near as spotters could judge, the score was one direct hit, one dud, one hit with a time fuse that had yet to explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: World at the Fireside | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...substantial reserve strength bolster the expectations of the racquet-wielders from Cambridge. The nine men who are wearing the Crimson for the weekend's battles are southpaw Gene Nickerson, Sonny Lyell, Galen Felt Stretch Baker (six feet seven in his stocking feet). Captain Don Marvin, Decker Orr, Sandy Parker, Dud Palmer, and Doug Cochrane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH VARSITY FACES BIG TEST | 2/7/1941 | See Source »

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