Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knauth came to TIME soon after Pearl Harbor to write his personal knowledge of Central Europe into our Foreign News stories, but a year ago he flew to Turkey to take over the listening post we'd set up in Ankara to keep us posted on what was really going on in Hitler's Fortress...
...week before the Big Push, U.S. casualties reached an alltime high-19,998 for seven days. Casualties since Pearl Harbor now totaled 859,587, more than twice the number of World War I. And the battlefront pictures showed the cemeteries growing ever larger...
They were born in the U.S. and, until Pearl Harbor, had therefore enjoyed all the blessings of citizenship. They had gone to the public schools, voted, earned a living. Some of them had friends or relatives in the U.S. armed forces. But last week these 6,000-odd U.S. Japanese were busy renouncing their citizenship to swear allegiance to Emperor Hirohito...
...committee had no choice. The U.S. gold hoard, which amounted to a historic $22,737,000,000 at the time of Pearl Harbor, is now down to $20,452,000,000. This might shrink even further if foreign balances in the U.S. of $5.3 billions are converted into gold. Reason for today's lowered total: the U.S. has been paying cash for more than half of its war imports and purchases in foreign lands (most of its vast exports are lend-lease, bring home no U.S. dollars). Thus the gold which poured into...
...only headlines. Two secretaries spend five to seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other, he shoots only when a duck is outlined in the sky, fishes, like...