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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caledonia, a Free French island 700 miles east of Australia. It was a prize the Jap would have given a lot of men to take, for it lies athwart the lifeline from the U.S. to Down Under. It is also incredibly rich in minerals -No. 2 world producer of nickel, No. 5 of chromite. New Caledonia was worth anybody's taking. And the Jap, at least temporarily stalled in New Guinea, had been scooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AUSTRALIA: Unfinished Business | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...deposit a small amount of mercury in each tube from a mechanical "eye-dropper," which was not very precise. Insufficient mercury, Cox explained, makes the light slump quickly; too much mercury produces blotches and discoloration. Hygrade's new process seals the mercury in long sections of thin nickel tubing, feeds the tubing into a precision machine which nips off "mercury bombs" of specified length, carries the "bombs" under a magnetic device which picks out of line and discards any capsule holding even 1/1,000 gram less than the amount required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fluorescent Bombing | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Axis, whose State and business are synonymous, always moved in a straight line. Its businessmen abroad had one job: to win the war. They grabbed war-essential raw materials in exchange for cameras or money, without figuring the price. They let everything else go, foregoing nickel-nickel peacetime profits for the great rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Bloodless War | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...Jones had handled every pre-Pearl Harbor proposition with a small-town banker's suspicion and a horse-trader's fishy eye. Mr. Jones haggled, saved the U.S. many a nickel, lost the U.S. millions of dollars' worth of them. When defense agencies pleaded with companies to accept wartime orders and expand, Mr. Jones demanded collateral as usual, saw to it that each deal was a rock-sound financial proposition before he certified a Federal loan. In the summer of 1940 he turned a cold shoulder on synthetic rubber manufacture, because he figured that synthetic rubber would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jinnee Jones | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...more so because she is sure that a year ago, before the boys filled up the Army camps, she could have bought it for the feed bill. So she has decided to start her own magazine, called after her new show, Star & Garter. ("I wouldn't put a nickel in a show, not 5?, but I'd take money from my annuities for a magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Expectant Publisher | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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