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BBC listeners had special reasons for speaking up. Unlike Americans, who get their radio programs free, over nine million British radio owners pay ten shillings apiece yearly for the privilege of listening to their only broadcasting system. For their money they get the product of a semi-government monopoly which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: BBC & Its Public | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Once again the red cannon rolled. They boomed for countless men grey from the foe. In Berlin Nazi spokesmen babbled of "evading actions" and "elastic defense." But the grim face of the war map uttered the word they would not: retreat. All along the 700-mile fluid front, from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: For Whom the Guns Roll | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

"I am referring here to the countless wires for flower decorations, the millions of long pins necessary to keep the hats in place, the huge tonnage of glue for fixings, the untold quantity of rubber and elastic bands sometimes used instead of pins, the miles of lace going into veils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tale of a Hat | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Something to wonder about--how does it happen that the 1st Platoon, Co. A, always reaps a reward on their field trips: this time it was photographs, clips, elastic bands, ice cream, soda and the like ... all from Dennison Company??? Yet, we of the 2nd Platoon would have looked a...

Author: By Norman S. Gilbert, | Title: ASOTELLITES | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

Half a million men surged all week over rainswept fields around Orel. This week the Berlin radio spoke guardedly of fighting "in the southwestern part of the town." If true, this meant the Russians were finally forcing them to abandon their easternmost strong point in the central front. To their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Strongest Force | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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