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...meningitis (symptoms: stiff neck, headache, delirium, partial deafness and blindness, a rash) hits hardest in concentrations of young men, the Army is on the watch. At a California ordnance depot, three soldiers died almost before their trouble could be diagnosed. The doctors were waiting for the next 17 cases with sulfadiazine, saved them all. They made throat cultures of men in the barracks involved, dosed all who harbored the bacteria. Said a medical officer: "If you catch it early, it's a bad cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Meningitis Up | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

When the Russians recaptured Kharkov last week, they found that the huge Kharkov Tractor Works had been in partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: What Hitler is Losing | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...partial compromise is in the making. The Maritime Commission now has in the works a new and bigger Liberty with a better reciprocating engine-which, however, cannot go into production until 1944. Possibly the present program of 200 C-type per year can be stepped up. But chances are that at war's end the U.S. will have to tie up and scrap many hundreds of merchantmen and start afresh, just as she did after World War I with the old Hog-Islanders. By that time the chances also are that the U.S. will want a far smaller (though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Liberty? | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...used the term to mean he was partial to the Nazis and their program, as we might say an Anglophile is sympathetic to the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O'Donnell's $50,000 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Said Ruth, bursting with wedding plans: "He'll never be a drag on anyone. Not that one!" Other welcome home news for Al Schmid was the doctors' verdict: that after more months of hospital care he possibly might regain partial vision in his one remaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Dear Ruth . . . | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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