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...Pursglove, W. Va., on Sunday, the men from Scott's coal hollow held a meeting. Stiff in their Sunday clothes, they flocked to Dallas Hall, paused for a brief beer, stood bareheaded in the bare room to hear their leaders. Outside a brisk wind whipped powdery snow around the houses that cling drunkenly to the hillsides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John Lewis & the Flag | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...djebels were taken. Between them lay a hollow with a huge, V-shaped anti-tank ditch and behind the ditch a nest of 88-mm. guns. The enemy had dug their ditch well, using pneumatic drills to get deep into the rocky subsurface. A British battalion was sent in to clean out that pocket of resistance. It was mean work, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Piston | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Said Chester Davis: "I had been hoping Washington would pass me by and pick someone fresh on the scene. . . . It gives me a hollow feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Tenth Czar | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Black Past. No one begrudged Chester Davis that hollow feeling. Under slow-moving Secretary of Agriculture Claude

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The Tenth Czar | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the concert was given. Frantically tapping Charlotte's resources until they rang hollow, the Clevelanders fished together a curious assortment of instruments and scores and sat down to play in such costumes as were handy. The program consisted of three substitutions (out of four numbers). It all went off very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carolina Concert | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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