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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against such a possibility Canada's old-line parties, which hate and fear the C.C.F. more than they do each other, might willy-nilly be forced into a shotgun marriage to keep the socialists out. Canada waits to hear how Mackenzie King proposes to get out of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: The Last Session? | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Rats mislike loud noises, as many a laboratory worker knows. And a shrill noise may throw them into something like an epileptic fit. This elementary experiment has long served as an introduction to the study of fear. Last week, however, some very contradictory rat findings were reported in Science by a Johns Hopkins psychologist, William J. Griffiths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shockproof Rats | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Everybody's right to protection from fear of old age, sickness, unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: New Bill of Rights | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...peasant country, whose capital, Sofia, has been called an overgrown village. Bulgarians for the most part are pro-Russian by tradition, provincial by nature, pro-German by decree of persistently pro-German governments. They like Americans (but have had few dealings with them), consider Britain anti-Bulgar. They fear and hate the Turks, who ruled them for five centuries. They think that they have a right to keep lands snatched from Yugoslavia and Greece, but do not want to fight for these territories. In World War II they have found little profit, much distress, and by all indications they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Walk, Do Not Run | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...German Army was forced to raid the home front merely to exist. Great collections of clothes were taken up, German workers were called out of the factories and sent to the training camps, the Government offices were combed out, and foreign labor-the potential "Trojan horse" that all Germans fear-was imported to keep the productive machine going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rust | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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