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...when great fronts are falling. But for the Russians it is not deception; it is the feeding of the Russian conviction which a Moscow writer expressed to Correspondent-Author Maurice Hindus: "The loss of territory is never much in Russian wars, so long as our armies make it a graveyard for German soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Peasant and His Land | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Dear friends, when I am dead plant me a willow in the graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Cows and Pipe Organs. Fairchild shopped around and the burghers helped. Here was a plant wrapped in graveyard silence, there an empty garage. Artisans could be had for the asking. Soon many a converted machine shop began displaying the Fairchild emblem. Airplane parts in a trickle, then in a stream began flowing toward the main plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Hagerstown Gets Hot | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...girls has just spent a week on the "graveyard shift." She has stood it very well and was able to adjust her sleeping habits quickly. In fact, she found it rather novel and exciting to work at night. . . . HELEN I. BEACH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...over the U.S. are making small parts on machines, inspecting, filling shells, putting fabric on non-stress areas of bomber wings, bending tubing to fit into fuselages, making rubber boats, assembling machine guns and small arms. They work as long as ten hours a day on day, "swing," and "graveyard" shifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MANPOWER: Women & Machines | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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