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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested, as import permit is required now from the Government and there is quite a lot of red tape with so many forms and papers to fill." Another firm of Los Angeles, Calif, wrote recently:. "We cannot ship lavatories nor any other sanitary goods as we are unable to obtain allocation for the material required for brass fittings." I offered to ship brass and copper scrap, but they answered that they could not use it as they would have to go through such red tape that it would take years before being through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1942 | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...department, on the other hand, has felt a drop in the number of undergraduates taking courses in the department and an even more violent one in the number of graduate students. The Anthropology Department has seen a 25 percent falling off already and is finding it increasingly difficult to obtain satisfactory applicants for fellowships...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: War Affects Faculty In Social Science Fields | 3/20/1942 | See Source »

Russia lost little time in singling out the volunteers for special attention. Soviet bombers dropped pamphlets in several languages behind the German lines, offering safe conduct and fair treatment to deserters. Many recruits enlisted only long enough to obtain guns, ammunition and supplies, then legged it for the Russian lines. Last report from the French legion told of its crushing defeat near Mozhaisk. The Blue Division, a Spanish prisoner told his Soviet captors, has lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Men Wanted | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...interested in enlisting in the Army at this time in order to continue this course of study may obtain applications for enlistment from Professor Casner and the Student War Service Information Bureau, from Dean Westergaard at the Graduate School of Engineering, or from Professor Kemble in the Physics Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECTRONICS STUDENTS WHO ENLIST WILL WIN DEFERMENT | 3/7/1942 | See Source »

Neumaticos Para Turistas? The New York Times printed startling news from Laredo, Tex.: "American tourists visiting Mexico can obtain all of the automobile tires they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Happy Motoring | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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