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Government participation in prosthetic research was nil until last March when OSRD set up a committee to collect and pass on new inventions. The committee has two experts, installed at Northwestern University. The armed services and Veterans' Administration have done almost nothing about the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Neglected Heroes | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

With box office receipts nil, though reservations are required, 'the Emerson girls and their male counterparts will close on GBS tomorrow night, but will present a new play every other Wednesday, to run of the two following nights, until August...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Emerson Femmes Trail Boston BOs | 7/19/1945 | See Source »

...lost). By their own admission, the B-29 flyers were running out of industrial targets. Next on the priority list: railroads, hydroelectric plants and port installations. One prime target remains out of even B-29 range: the Jap air force. Since fighter opposition lately has been almost nil, the Japs presumably have withdrawn their remaining planes to the far north, saving them for the invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Plans & Planes | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Tiger tanks. Of 2,500 machines, only 300 were left. Key equipment from textile mills, sugar refineries and other factories had also made the long trip to Russia. Said a German manager appointed by the Russians: "There is no question of our producing anything. Our productive capacity is absolutely nil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: City of Death | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Amery, Secretary of State for India, in Britain's general election, came felicitations from an eminent Indian wellwisher. Newly released after three years in jail, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu nationalist, paused briefly in Bombay to wire Dutt luck on his pluck. Dutt's chances of election: virtually nil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Felicitations | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

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