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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action East. A U.S. destroyer heeled into harbor at Wellington, N.Z., boiled to its anchorage at 23 knots (15 knots above the harbor speed limit). Aboard was the Christian Science Monitor's mild, sandy-haired Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch, who wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: The Way to Win a War | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Because he believes propeller speeds are nearing the upper limit of possible efficiency, an Italian engineer, Secondo Campini, has invented the first successful plane in aviation history to be propelled by a jet of compressed air. So reports The Aeroplane, a British journal which reached the U.S. last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Contradictory Screws | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...felt that although the Allies cannot as yet master sufficient strength to force the Japanese to concentrate their resources on one front, the democracies may be able to increase their power sufficiently to make them limit their actions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FALL OF SINGAPORE SEEN AS SERIOUS AS DUNKIRK | 2/13/1942 | See Source »

...Album reserves the right to use all the entries, and have access to all negatives. Contestants should leave their name, address, and phone number on each print, and there is no limit to the number of entries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Album Photo Contest Open to All Students | 2/6/1942 | See Source »

...first year, Seniors were exempted from the draft, and the colleges remained relatively untapped by the services of Uncle Sam. As Army and Navy expansion programs began to hop into the less conservative millions, the provision exempting Seniors was struck out of the Draft Bill, and the age limit was lowered to twenty. With a sizable percentage of college men now in danger of getting neither sheepskin nor commission, the Navy came through last December with a V-7 plan. This served a double purpose: it gave many students a chance to finish college, and it diverted much officer material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Samper Fidelis | 2/5/1942 | See Source »

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