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...newest flare-up began last month when the well-meaning Army decided to set up separate redistribution centers in Harlem and Chicago's down-at-the-heel South Side for Negro troops of the Army Ground Forces (TIME, Oct. 2). Although they are in overcrowded sections and only equipped to the lower-drummer-trade standard, the Hotels Pershing and Theresa, the Army wishfully reasoned, would still be more restful to battle-weary Negroes than any of the 49 fancy hotels taken over for whites in resort centers like Miami, Santa Barbara, Lake Placid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: No Rest Yet | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...group, Southerners insisted that Negroes in uniform keep strictly to the Jim Crow laws. Crowded buses, where the races were forced to mingle, became the scene of ugly flare-ups. In some sections bus drivers toted guns. The South was prepared to back up its Jim Crow laws with force. On at least one occasion an "uppity" Negro soldier bus-rider was shot dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Unhappy Soldier | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...experimental attack, with new planes, the show went off in good style. Planes went in singly; there were no formations. The operation was timed as a night strike, hitting shortly before midnight. No flares were used. Eight lead planes hit first, and the fires they set were admirable flare markers for the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: The Beginning | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Private Vincent Forret wrote: "We get off the trucks and about that time a red flare was shot in the air by the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Servicemen | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...people die of hydrophobia, because nearly all those infected get the Pasteur injections in time. The Public Health Service says that the current rabies outbreak is no worse than usual-so far. But it is potentially more dangerous because of the wartime increase in stray dogs. Rabies flare-ups are concentrated where busy working people let dogs run all day and where migrant populations leave their dogs behind them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Dog! | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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