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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus 1946 took up where 1945 had left off-and in the same area. Only 16 nights before, only 64 miles to the north, the Seaboard's west coast Silver Meteor had knifed into cars of the northbound Sun Queen, killing six, injuring 62. Seventy-two hours later, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Wreckingest | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

In a business whose hallmark is frightfulness, Waitt's CWS did its job so well that it made any hostile use of chemical warfare unprofitable. Though the U.S. never mass-produced killing and maiming gasses (Germany stored well over 250,000 tons), it kept up production of their basic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Into the Night | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

In a quiet voice, heavy with strain, Frau Meyer told how she had been "supremely happy" with SS Major General Kurt Meyer, whose five children were "very much attached to him." Then, for ten minutes, the prisoner protested his innocence. But five high-ranking officers, conducting Canada's first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: WAR CRIMES: The Sentence | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

¶ High concentrations of DDT used against forest pests kill fish indirectly, by killing aquatic insects. Crayfish and tadpoles, both important fish foods, can be killed by contact with DDT and by eating DDT-contaminated food.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mithridates, He Died Old | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

Joe E. Brown, canyon-mouthed cine-comic, followed Charles A. Lindbergh (TIME, Dec. 10) into the spotlight as a civilian Jap-shooter. In direct violation of the Hague Convention, U.S.O. Trouper Brown, whose son was killed in the war, rode a tank last summer in the attack on Bamban in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Debits & Credits | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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