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What caused this was not the 1,000-plane-a-night potential with which Anglo-U.S. air power may some day cripple the German war effort. Bomber Commanders Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris and Major General Carl Spaatz were doing what they could with what they had-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF GERMANY: Self-Defense | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

> To make it unlawful for any patent license to prescribe prices, market areas, sales volume, etc. (This week the Supreme Court, in an 8-to-0 decision involving Univis Lens Co. patents, said flatly that this was already the law of the land. )

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PATENTS: Paraflow and Paradox | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

FBI headquarters in New York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: FBI-Opener | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Baseball's No. 1 scholar is an authority on phonetics, philology, political philosophy and Romance languages. He is also an inventor (a lens for color photography), businessman (he acquired half-interest in a writing-paper firm by lending a friend his World Series bonus nine years ago) and lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catcher Unmasked | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Though astronomers still gaze at the stars, most telescopes are now in effect cameras. Essential part is a concave spherical mirror which gathers starlight, focuses it on a photographic plate. But mirrors hitherto could focus light from but a small section of sky on the plate without fuzzing and distortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wide-Eyed Camera | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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