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> Reported the United Press: "Increases in the land garrison and arrival of heavy fleet reinforcements have swelled the white population from 15,000 to 50,000. Women and children are being evacuated. Governor Pierre Boisson ordered them to leave, remembering how civilians clogged the roads during the German invasion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Beckoning Finger | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

The Psychological Laboratory, which at the west end of the building trains undergraduate Morse Code classes in less than half the time expected by the Army and Navy, maintains facilities for physiological research at the east end. Graduate and undergraduate thesis-writers here are each charged with the welfare and...

Author: By M. S. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

Smiling, hustling Henry Doorly had himself demonstrated how. In the World-Herald he put on a whirlwind drive to make all Nebraska scrap-conscious. In full-page advertisements, the newspaper trumpeted the campaign, treated it liberally in its news columns. There were prizes for those bringing in the most scrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: To Arouse the People | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Although it was not expected that College rooms would provide a phenomenal amount of scrap, dog-cared sneakers, antique records, mouldy straw hats, and radios of ancient vintage were among the more recognizable objects which have already found their way into the growing piles of the War Service Committee's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scrap Drive Has Fair Success in Two Days | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

Before the German invasion, Shostakovich lived in a five-room Leningrad apartment filled with his family (wife, two children, mother, sister and sister's son) and piles of scores, books on music and sport. An enthusiastic soccer fan, Shostakovich is a regular correspondent of the chief Russian sports paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich & the Guns | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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