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Only with this war are some of the leading manufacturers learning that better working conditions produce contented workers who turn out more and better products. Walter F. Bogner, associate professor of Architecture, has summed up the ideals of many industrial planners when he proposes a single story, fresh air plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOGNER PLANS UTOPIAN FACTORIES FOR NATION | 6/1/1945 | See Source »

One of the "refugee plants" from western Russia, the factory lies somewhere in a "deserted prairie valley"-presumably on the eastern fringe of European Russia. In some respects, the account resembled descriptions of new plants in U.S. boom towns. As yet the factory is unkempt and ragged. A railroad has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Pokryshkin Wins | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

By day the invasion coast, from the Hook of Holland to the Breton Peninsula, hums and crackles like a great anthill with the Germans' building and rebuilding. Workmen, slave and free, throw up great strong points of concrete and steel. The spirit of the great Fritz Todt, who built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Facing the Channel | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Hit tunes, like grass fires, usually start in a small way. Somebody plays them. Somebody hums them. Suddenly they catch on and sweep the country. Glenn Miller introduced Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree last February. Two and a half months later, it led in sheet-music sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soldiers' Song | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Today's familiar metal and rubber stethoscope (Greek for chest examiner) is quite different from Laënnec's-a hollow bell or a cap with a hard rubber diaphragm to be placed on the chest or back and tubes to transmit sound to the earpieces. And its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chest Examiner | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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