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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Save or Destroy? Last week's hullabaloo from Moscow obscured the fact that Soviet Russia had lost a studied effort to settle the Finnish campaign without having to beat the Finns. Cabled Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Death in an Empty Room | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Lieut. James Holmlund and his six radiomen had labored three months to get JJRP going. They built their transmitter out of spare parts brought in from all over the world. This week's practically perfect results were worth the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jig Jig Roger Peter | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Announcing that the dance will be open to all upperclassmen, the Committee also stated that stags will be welcomed. In the absence of plans for a '47 Smoker, the Jubilee will probably represent the only coordinated social effort of the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: George Auld to Play At Freshman Jubilee | 4/28/1944 | See Source »

...scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rape of the Laboratories | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Government must take a firm stand and close plants no longer needed in the war effort. From civic groups and from men in public office, there will come the cry: 'Woodman, spare that plant!' But we must realize that Santa Claus has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Claus Has Gone | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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