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At Spitsbergen the British blew up the coal mines, fired the coal piles, destroyed the coal-loading machinery, burned the oil supplies, killed all the cattle. They also removed the entire civilian population, including the Russians who mined 500,000 tons of coal annually for the Soviet Arctic Fleet, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: ARCTIC REGION: Spitsbergen Party | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Planes. Last October Chrysler leased 600,000 square feet of the old Graham-Paige plant, in anticipation of a bomber parts contract which came through eight months later. Right now this building has nothing to offer but clean floors, a fresh coat of paint, a few piles of aluminum sheeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler's Sideshow | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Meanwhile in cities, where piles of scrap still blight city halls, mayors began to scream too. But McConnell, surveying the mess he did not make, was still remarkably optimistic. Allowing for baby carriages, he still hopes to get 8,400,000 Ib. of aluminum out of the 14,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Get the Junk Man | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

No one wanted to contemplate the day when whistling explosives might make piles of smoking trash out of U. S. buildings, craters in U. S. streets. But few dared say that such things were impossible in the world of 1941. An organization of U. S. fire-watchers, trained to extinguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Home Front | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Wherever three or four women squat beside piles of grain and peppers, there is Harar's market place. Before the town's Law Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Key Towns | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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