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...days, nearly set a record. But with one more day to go, Straining Annie produced a canary-sized pellet, was retired to the dinner table, to see how far she would go there. After a flood, Mayor Tripp found a school of young salmon stranded in a haystack. They were perfectly happy because they had never known any other life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taleteller | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...World War II the British are taking no chances of missing the useful needle among the preposterous straws of the haystack. In the Ministry of Supply an Invention Board has been set up to collect and consider, not only ideas submitted directly to Government departments, but also those sent to manufacturers, who have found their influx of suggestions quadrupled since the war started. Some British ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ideas for War | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Chiang Kaishek, though still hardly more than an ambitious warlord, was beginning to make his people realize that yellow skin was not necessarily synonymous with low estate. The Russians, to promote world revolution, were also urging a China for Chinese. The country burst into fire from within, like a haystack with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bare Fist, Gloved Fist | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Kaishek, symbol of the belated unification of China. For two years this perambulating symbol who travels fearlessly by plane over the mountains and deserts of his country has evaded capture from in front and assassination and bribery (old-Asiatic tools) from behind. Chiang is the needle in the greatest haystack in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...loving Moran once set himself to find a needle in a haystack (time: 82 hours, 35 minutes); sold an icebox to an Eskimo; peddled advertising for display on barbershop ceilings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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