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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Gordon has written about Paula Wharton-a Dorothy-Parkerish writer who becomes an Army wife-with something like a Parker pen. While Paula's 39-year-old husband sweats for his commission, his sophisticated wife is exposed to wet-behind-the-ears Army youngsters and null-behind-the-skull colonels' wives. To help her husband, she drips sweetness; but she is saved from choking on treacle by such menaces in mufti as her husband's former boss and a Hollywood producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...Austria shall be liberated from German domination. The annexation imposed on Austria by Germany on March 13, 1938 is null & void. Austria is reminded, however, that she has a responsibility, which she cannot evade, for participation in the war at the side of Hitlerite Germany, and that in the final settlement account will inevitably be taken of her own contribution to her liberation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE MOSCOW AGREEMENT | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

Warhawk (Curtiss P-40). One of the most heavily criticized of U. S. fighters, the rugged null (of the earlier Tomahawk and Kittyhawk series) were the backbone of U.S. defense in the early days of the war, drew many a slam because critics blamed them for results stemming from inexperienced tactics, lack of radar and other cause? outside the aircraft's ability. From Feb. i, 1942 to June 30, 1943, P-405 in all theaters, including Northwest Africa, destroyed 560 enemy craft, damaged 128, while losing 204. Yet the P-4O, of which more than 10,000 have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: REPORT | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...Only previous draft of null was in World War I, only other major foreign war in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Production Tripped Up | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...fire of the dedication, pilots hurtled the old Tomahawk and the new Kittihawk across the field leaving behind them a sound like the ripping of a canvas tent. They did vertical slow rolls, snapped null over on their backs and back again to demonstrate fighting maneuverability. While their workmen-builders shouted applause they sent their speedsters straight up thousands of feet, looped, did soaring Immelmann turns, flew on their backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kittihawk | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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