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This week the Army went to work on an operation which the forehanded Lutes and his staff began plotting in August 1943. They had listed cement, steel, tools, machinery needed to rebuild the port of Cherbourg. All the stuff was loaded onto a small fleet of ships, some of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Little Man in a Big Room | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

U.S. Citizen Franklin Roosevelt called for his housekeeper. Had his application for Ration Book 3 been mailed? White Housekeeper Mrs. Henrietta Nesblr looked at the clock, put in a hurry call for OPA, had the Post Office rush over a blank. Forms had been delivered, days before, to the big...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

Some metal supplies are in good shape-at least so far as essential needs are concerned. Lead and antimony, on WPB's requirements list, both show a slight excess of supply. Though manganese is now taking some of the load off nickel, the supply situation looks good enough-so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Report on Metals | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Maestro Toscanini was very well connected. He was connected with National Broadcasting Co., and NBC, it seemed, had been exceedingly forehanded. Last January, before a note of the symphony had been heard in rehearsal in Kuibyshev, NBC started dickering, through its Moscow correspondent, for first Western Hemisphere performance rights. By...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich & the Guns | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Incision Hoarding? In some parts of the country surgeons have been kept busy performing operations that patients wanted done before their doctors were called up. In addition to such forehanded patients who will soon not be able to be treated by the physicians they prefer, there are others-in booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lining Up the Doctors | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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