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...countries in the world, China and Russia are in the best position to furnish men, while America is in the best position to furnish equipment. Why should we not accept these undisputed, fundamental facts, and apply to them the rule of sound reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Big an Army? | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...studies in wartime, President Lowell said, "Until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady application, and to persistent purpose. The college course is designed to furnish these things; and the only difference in the feeling that a younger man should have about college in these days is a stronger determination to make the most of the opportunities it affords, to take his studies at school or college more seriously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANFORD SAYS PETITIONS TO LEAVE NEEDED | 1/15/1943 | See Source »

Silver Bloc. Portland (Ore.) restaurants report heavy increases in thefts of silverware. Their theory: Portland's thousands of new war workers, now starting to furnish 28,683 emergency houses built in the area, are thus assembling their household flatware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patterns | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Feats of the 19th furnish the best evidence to a country suddenly thrown into war that Americans have not lost courage. Captain Hewitt T. ("Shorty") Wheless' 75-mile battle with 18 Jap Zeros was the subject of a Presidential broadcast. Wheless' fellow Texan, Captain Alvin John Henry Mueller, also a winner of the D.S.C., brought his B-17 back with 1,400 bullet holes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: One Year with the 19th | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...This is the first time, I believe, that Mayor Hague has really expressed his concern that the game is about up-that he will not be able to dominate the city much longer . . . that an honest tax rate based on honest assessments would not furnish enough funds to pay the crushing expenses of his management of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Bankruptcy's Brink | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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