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Vichy held up to the light last week one of the fruits of its collaboration with Germany, announced that Adolf Hitler had released one-fourth of his French war prisoners-500,000 men. It was plain that in choosing those to be freed Hitler had intended: 1) to help France grow strong again for New Order purposes; 2) to rid his prison camps of disabled prisoners who were a nuisance. Those released included medical-corps members, fathers who had four children when mobilized, some farm workers, veterans of World War I, members of families of those who had volunteered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Partial Release | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Almost one-fourth of the men inducted into the Army need immediate dental care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Harvard Dentists | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth as dense. Hence a 1,000-h.p. motor seven miles up will deliver only a puttering 250 h.p. without artificial respiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out of Thin Air | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Skillful propaganda, coupled with this aid, makes capital of the Chaco's misery. And the misery is real. Presidencia Roque Saenz Pena has 4.000 people on relief at $1.50 per person per year. Cosecheros (Argentina's Okies) pour in to work in the fields, but less than one-fourth of them find work. Company-store prices are double to treble the prices at ordinary stores, and the cosecheros are paid in bonos, valid only at these stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hitler in the Jungle | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...have to be poured into defense. In World War I, motor-makers remember they took much more than a 20% cut. All through 1918 they had trouble getting materials, and in the second half the War Industries Board made them hold production down to 423,800 cars, based on one-fourth of their 1,874,000 output for the twelve months of 1917. For 1919 they were warned that they might not be allowed to build any cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Quotas in Detroit | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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