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Many a dollar-a-year man trying to make the best of things in Washington may feel that FORTUNE is ingenuous in implying that only his own lack of initiative prevents his taking control of the production effort and making it hum. Many may feel that FORTUNE failed to give due credit for the absolute accomplishments to date-the camps constructed, the plants built, the ships launched, despite the confusion and misjudgments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time: The Present | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...Here we meet while from across the Atlantic Ocean the hammers and lathes of the United States signal in a rising hum their message of encouragement and their promise of swift and ever-growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Peace, No Rest, No Parley | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Paul Revere adulated Adolf Hitler every night except Saturdays (DXP and DJB -11:30 E.D.S.T.), but so dully that a more fitting name for him might have been Lord Ho-Hum. Last week, celebrating his 52nd birthday ("the exact age of Hitler, the most successful man in the world"), he revealed himself as Chicago-born Douglas Chandler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo, Chandler! | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...foundations for your successful career as a soldier." Since 1919 the hard-boiled sergeant, the bull-roaring officer have been fading from the military scene. Their replacements are officers and noncoms taught that intelligent teamwork, not dumb obedience, is what an army needs to make it hum, that enlisted soldiers must know (at least generally) the whys & wherefores of what they are told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Advice for Soldiers | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Westinghouse survey of its South American consumers revealed that 1) housewives commonly install electric refrigerators in their parlors; 2) sales of improved electric fans slumped because South Americans like the loud hum of the old models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Clear Sailing for Ma | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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