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...First-Grader Jeanne Ketchen, 23, went to teach at Spencer, which is nearer her home, was replaced by Mrs. Lulu Heiny, 51, widow of a dentist (some years' experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hawkeye View | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Second-Grader Ellen Brechner, 25, went to teach at Osage, which is nearer her home, was replaced by Kathlyn Burkholder, 20 (no experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hawkeye View | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...replenish their stocks. But although OPA is paying the banks some $12,000,000 a year for their pains, most of them arestill losing money on their deal with the Government. Last week, therefore, OPA raised their fees for opening and handling accounts by about 25%, to somewhere nearer the break-even point for the average bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Well-Earned Raise | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...leaving Charlotte). Charlotte also contributed several other doctors, two business managers-Captain Stanton Pickens, who used to work for the Coca-Cola Co. and "Buck" Medearis, manager of a laundry-and many of the nurses. Once when the Evac was stuck on a siding waiting to move nearer the front, the engineer of a train going the other way called: "Anyone from Charlotte, N.C.?" The answering chorus nearly knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Charlotte Evac | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...United Nations, heady over the mounting triumph on the battlefronts, this was the headiest political event yet. Now the war's end, distant though it might be, seemed a long stride nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Duce ( 1922-43) | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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