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...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 »

...some 6,500 independent telephone companies that operate about 20% of the U.S.'s 22,600,000 telephones, the Mt. Vernon Telephone Co., of Rockcastle County, Ky., is certainly not the best. Most of its null subscribers suffer old-fashioned wall crank phones. Once a break in the line was not repaired for three months. Some lines are down because poles have rotted away and have not been replaced. On a $6,372 gross last year, the company lost $39.58, It prints no directory; subscribers merely give the crank a whirl and say: "Gimme John Boone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Dees Goes to Town | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...size of a hockey puck. Their name: the George Foster Peabody Award "for conspicuous service in radio broadcasting." Selected for the first honors were: CBS (among chains), Cincinnati's 50,000-watt WLW (among big stations), Cleveland's 5,000-watt WGAR (among middle-sized stations), Columbia, null 250-watt KFRU (among small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Order of Merit | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...mosquito) boats both large & small. For these the British would trade at least two spanking-new battleships of the enormous King George V class (35,000 tons, mounting ten 14-in. guns). With the two new U. S. battleships, North Carolina (due in April) and Washington (due in May), null mounting nine 16-in. guns, the U. S. could reinforce the Pacific Fleet with four modern battleships, increase its battle line to 16 capital ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ninth Year Begins | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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