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...spite of all prevailing hopes, fears, doubts, and reports over the weekend, Sheridan is still 20 (or more) miles away, and, apparently, has never got any nearer than that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Ann Sheridan After All; Boy Waits 2 Hours in Hopes | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...seconds the wardens had the streets clear. Soon, far and high, but nearer & nearer, came the drone of planes. Antiaircraft fire began to slam. Tearing down through the night sky, a far-off whistle rising hysterically into a splitting scream, came the first bombs. Soon the whole sky was screaming with bombs, while the city-target below bumped and shook in the bursts, and incendiary bombs spluttered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME FRONT: Terrible Bombings | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...account of singing and sex in Mexico. His third (Mildred Pierce) is the most interesting of the three. It is about almost ordinary people: a Glendale, Calif, housewife, her husband, her two lovers, her business, her daughter. It is as ugly as Hitler's My New Order, even nearer home, and much more readable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Season's Ugliest | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Senate vote (67-to-5) was nearly unanimous. The Senate version is nearer to the bill Franklin Roosevelt wanted. Best guess is that Congress will swallow the Senate bill quickly and quietly, will have it ready for the President's signature some time next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 3583900000 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...some $13,000,000.000 in all. The Government will spend at least $22,000,000,000 in fiscal 1942-maybe a lot more. To preserve the Treasury's hoped-for ratio of 2-to-1 between money raised by taxation and money borrowed, revenues would have to be nearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Last Tax Mile | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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