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Politically the British defeat in Greece just about blew the delicately balanced lid off the Australian tea-billy. Much of the Australian press, a majority of Australians and almost all of the continent's vociferous Laborites wanted to know why the Anzacs had been sent into the hopeless Greek campaign in the first place, above all why Australia's Advisory War Council had not been consulted before they were sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Anxiety Down Under | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

What the crowd of onlookers saw was the biggest airplane ever built-not a flying super-powered trunk lid like the late Russian Maxim Gorky, with engine piled on engine to make up for rough design, but a flying machine as sleek and carefully designed as a Spitfire. Rolling through the door the B-19 looked even bigger than she had in the hangar. To get her out, they had had to deflate her tires and weight her tail, so that the nose wheel of her tricycle landing gear was off the ground. Even then her rudder barely cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: B-19 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity netmen will pry open the lid of their official spring schedule at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon when they face the Columbia tennis team on the Divinity Field courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Netmen Face Columbia in Opener | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

Rider. Near Barcelona, a peasant hitched a ride on a truck carrying an empty coffin. As it was raining, he crawled inside the coffin. Soon, the truck took two more passengers aboard. As they drove on, the peasant raised the lid, ejaculated: "It's stopped raining." Over the side went the other riders in terror. One was killed, the second badly hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...grisliness preceded the proposal. One day reviewers unwrapped a small, oblong parcel, found inside a miniature black cardboard coffin with a hinged lid. In it was a card reading, "Read GERMANY MUST PERISH! Tomorrow you will receive your copy." There was no identification of the sender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Modest Proposal | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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