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...little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines were idle. From the town rose loved Welsh songs like Jenny Jones, Men of Harlech and the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau-meaning Land of My Fathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Melodies for Miners | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

This is the first book about the war in the Pacific that tries to answer the one question that Americans most want to hear answered: When and where do we attack the Japanese? Naval Expert Kiral-fy's answer: In 1942, by invading Japan from the north. This is also the first book that insists (sometimes with irritating dogmatism) that the key to victory over Japan cannot be found in comparative naval tonnage, air strength, gun power, speed or armor. It lies, says Kiralfy, in a closer study of the Japanese mind, especially in its military workings. Americans have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tremendous Triangle | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

ESCAPE TO THE PRESENT-Johannes Steel-Farrar fy Rinehart ($2.50). Reminiscent of E. Phillips Oppenheim, the auto-biography of an exiled German journalist and onetime spy, who here admits that his sensational dispatches (including a scoop on the Nazi Blood Purge of 1934) have "rested on pretty nearly nothing but analysis and intuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...bales since AAA began its reduction program in 1933, is still an 8,000,000-bale glut on the market. Of this AAA, which pegged the domestic price at 12? through its loans to growers, holds half. And its holdings are rapidly increasing since the domestic market price slipped fy under the peg in March (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Handclasps Over Cotton | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...which young poets vie to win fame in the lyric annals of Wales. Last week Caradoc Prichard, 23, Cardiff journalist, established a record by winning for the third consecutive year. The Archdruid, robed in white with a golden breastplate, commanded the people to rise and sing Hen Whad Fy Nhadau. In purple raiment, Bard Prichard walked to the presidential chair, seated himself amid a circle of white-clad druids, poets in azure, orators in green. A golden diadem was placed upon his head. Above him the Archdruid raised a glittering sword. "Is there peace?" he asked. "Peace," was the thunderous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Eisteddfod | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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