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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate a nomination of Coy as director of "a board of investigation and research" authorized by the 1940 Transportation Act. But Washington wiseacres expect the rising young New Dealer to spend his time on much more pressing things than researching "the relative economy and fitness of carriers by railroad, motor carriers, and water carriers for transportation service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home Front | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Ford Motor Co.: because of a shortage of compressors and turbines for its new airplane-engine factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wheels within Wheels | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...soon as that column got word that British Somaliland was British again, it captured Giggiga, a nondescript one-square town of tin-and straw-roofed houses. From there the troops pushed on for Harar. Soon they reached trouble. Between Giggiga and Harar lies some grim hill country. There the motor road turns and digs through narrow denies, and the hills, with their boulders and scrub, afford plenty of cover for defenders. It is the sort of country where a handful ought to be able to hold off an army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Key Towns | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

From Seattle they took a steamer to Nome. There they bought prospectors' packs and hiked ten days across the tundra to Cape Prince of Wales, westernmost tip of North America. For $20 an Eskimo boatman in a 30-ft. skin boat with an outboard motor took them across the 20-mile strip of water to Little Diomede Island, last outpost of the U. S. in Bering Strait. For $5 another boatman set them down on Russia's Big Diomede Island, two miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Eastern Aeneid | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...reflex act must begin with a stimulus outside the body, but man's mind can will motor activity spontaneously, can even pursue pure contemplation (as in pondering a problem). "Between energy [i.e., matter] and mind," says Sherrington, "science has found no 'how' of give and take. . . . Physiology has not enough to offer about the brain in relation to the mind to lend the psychiatrist much help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man and His Mind | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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