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...side of the heaviest battalions, but both sides always claim Him. Last week smooth, pudgy, pipe-smoking Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka of Japan, who has never lacked for grandiloquence, issued a gloomy New Year's message which set a new high for God-claiming, seemed to assign the deity a position at the side of, and somewhat inferior to, Yosuke Matsuoka himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Almighty Matsuoka | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...materiel moved in great numbers over the State railways of Hungary, from which German control officers barred al most all civilian traffic. As many as 25 trains a day rolled into Rumania, long strings of flat cars loaded with every kind of tank and cannon, up to heaviest siege ordnance. Box cars by the hundreds with seals on the doors rolled too, containing -some estimators said - enough soldiers to bring Hitler's strength in the Balkans up to 600,000. These troops began appearing and settling themselves in camps along the ice-filled Danube's left bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mist & Mystery | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: Mist & Mystery | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Harris is a dry, sandy Oklahoman who may or may not be the greatest U. S. composer. His cheering section insists that he is. Of all U. S. composers, Roy Harris is the one who does the most brooding and the heaviest word-slinging about what he writes. Last week Cleveland heard the first complete performance of his Folk-Song Symphony for orchestra and chorus, which he wrote "to bring about a cultural cooperation and understanding between the highschool, college and community cho ruses of our cities and their symphony orchestras [which] are frequently too remote socially from their community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk-Song Symphony | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tectyl | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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