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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been following a fiscal primrose path. It is time for us to face up. We must actually materially lower the American standard of living during the war. We must tax to the limit every dollar, corporate and individual, that is capable of bearing a tax. . . . That limit is reached only when the war effort itself is threatened. All else must be sacrificed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Plain Talk | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...good job at a shipyard but I would give it up if I could join the Air Forces WACs, but as I will not be 20 until December 1944, I am not eligible for any of the services. Why in the devil don't they lower the age limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...could do was go numb. . . . Now I'm all set to educate the realists. This wonderful compiler has put it all down so Mrs. Hinton, housewife, antiquer and garden-weeder not only can see this gigantic problem of limit less resources in peacetime, but can anticipate and relish the coming solution. He is wonderful. Does he have a bay window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...operating their skeleton fleet of 175 ships an average of 11.5 hours a day, the most obvious way to meet the enormous demand for air transportation is to boost the load each plane is licensed to carry. CAB has proposed to increase the Douglas DC-3 take-off weight limit of 25,200 Ib. by 1,000 Ib. and the 24,400-lb. landing weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Safety v. Payload | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...wheel is spiral rather than planar in shape. Its more well-known name is that of the Milky Way. The measurements of its various dimensions are highly accurate. Those of the sphere are far less certain since it is difficult to calculate the precise outer limit of the sphere. This is due to the thinning out of the stars along its outer fringes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wheel and Sphere Idea of Universe Forwarded by Harvard Investigators | 1/25/1944 | See Source »

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