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On Rudolf Quay. Beside the tank barricades and rolls of barbed wire which the Germans threw across the streets, the pavements were littered with piles of broken furniture. Whenever the defenders chose to make a fort out of a house they threw the contents into the street. Rudolf Quay was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN FRONT: City In Torment | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Suddenly that comfortable feeling vanished. V-bombs, British authorities admitted last week, had landed in northern England. German authorities identified the target as Manchester, 189 miles northwest of London. Men, women & children had died under cascading piles of brick; Christmas trees, wearing their tinsel and ornaments, had stood exposed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: V-Bombs North | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Last week the remains of Bvron Keating-piles of news clips-were decently interred in Keating's "office," the middle drawer of Hill's desk. Hill and Eckels have only one regret: "We had a corker planned. We were going to phony up a foundation-garment account for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: The Rise of Byron Keating | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Business as Usual. In London, staff members, inspecting the robombed wreckage of the Cable & Wireless headquarters, heard a telephone ring, burrowed through piles of debris, answered the call, returned to their clearance job.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

The Government is going to pile part of its vast stocks of surplus war materials up neatly in open spaces, throw a framework of wood or steel around the piles and then bolt corrugated sheet metal around the frames.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURPLUSES: Cover over the Junk | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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