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...compete with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move on to a flame which explodes the shells. The nut meat drops neatly into a hopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beet Seed Split | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...British dilem ma did not hinder the Russians or alter their developing plan. Alexander Korneichuk, new Foreign Commissar of the Soviet Ukraine (TIME, Feb. 14), may handle the Polish-border question. His wife, Wanda Wasilewska, is head of the Union of Polish Patriots. Moscow radio an nounced that her first move had been to form the Polish national council, include in it members of the "Polish Peasant, Socialist and Workers" parties and "other democratic national groupings." The Poles in London were in grave danger of being dispossessed by connubial diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wedlock & Deadlock | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

This doctrine has not gone unnoticed in Mexico (or in other parts of Latin America). Many leading Mexicans will never forget or forgive the insulting treatment they have received in Texas. Said Mañana, a Mexican weekly: "The Nazis of Texas are not political partners of the Führer of Germany . . . but indeed they are slaves of the same prejudices and superstitions. Mexicans have become the victims of ignorant rabble who see in blond hair and blue eyes their pretended racial superiority." In Mexico City's Novedades, Cartoonist Garcia Cabral scornfully, resentfully showed Mexican Comic Character Cantinflas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Bad Neighbors | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

There's a papoose for ev'ry ma-moose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Fish tried to stop. But she pushed the lever too far the other way, and the car backed up, ran over the Negro again. This rattled Mrs. Fish. Again she pushed the lever forward too far, again ran over him. The Negro jumped up, yelled: "'Fore God, ma'am, you sure is goin' to run over me," dashed for his life around the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Machine Age of Innocence | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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