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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition they will put on an entirely different show each day, using the same characters beloved of millions of housewives but involved in entirely different adventures. What these new Government-inspired adventures will be is up to OWI. But listeners who never get enough of CBS's Our Gal Sunday will be able to follow her breathless career as usual at 12:45 p.m. E.W.T., earlier that day (at 9:45 a.m. E.W.T.) they may follow her in a story promoting OWI's "Message" on the United Nations. Big Sister will double in a different story about "Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Life | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...CORRX GAL. 9 WB Life on Guada CRN CORRX 1: Para-The following were no casualites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...blue Pacific, plunk on the Equator, the U.S. now has an outlying bastion to protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Good-Neighborly Bases | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...under a Good Neighbor agreement, had the hearty endorsement of Ecuador's liberal, hemisphere-minded President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio. The U.S. had been negotiating for them since 1940, last year granted a $500,000 RFC loan for the "commercial improvement" of Albermarle Island, largest of the Galápagos group. (Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt cruised among the islands on the U.S.S. Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Good-Neighborly Bases | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Thus the Galápagos, first discovered in 1535, once again make history. For several centuries they were a famed stopping place for buccaneers and whalers, who took along the islands' giant (400 Ib.) tortoises for fresh meat, and set up a primitive post office (in a barrel) which still provides free mail delivery. In 1835 they made scientific history: Charles Darwin visited them, found that half of the islands' birds and flowers had no counterparts elsewhere, gathered data that later gave him the idea for his Origin of Species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Good-Neighborly Bases | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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