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...line of the Russian Army advance lies pint-sized Slovakia-and trouble for practically everybody concerned in the affairs of postwar Eastern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pride and a Priest | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...Effusive, Not Explosive." One man did not leave the tortured slope. Lively, pint-sized Professor Giuseppe Imbo, director of the Vesuvian Royal Observatory and foremost authority on the volcano, clung to his tiny workshop halfway up the mountain. Through four days & nights he scarcely ate, barely slept or washed. Alone he crept to the boiling crater's edge, closely charted the lava flow, checked his seismograph by kerosene lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Inner Wrath | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Pint-sized, grey-haired Arthur D. Whiteside, the 61-year-old President of credit raters Dun & Bradstreet, last week came out as a spokesman for all U.S. businessmen who fear the future. Fresh from a year as WPB's Chief of Civilian Requirements, he spoke to the potent American Retail Federation (representing 500,000 retailers) at its annual meeting in Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. His thesis: the U.S. Government should control civilian goods production "on the basis of 1939" for two to three years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSITION: Fear of the Future | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...pint the people to the goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pint to the Goal | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...floor. They have given all of their own blood that they can. Meanwhile papers all over the U.S. took up the cause. Result: hundreds of donors volunteered to give blood. Cartons of plasma arrived from Boston and Washington; 300 WACs at Chanute Field, Ill. arranged to give a pint of blood apiece. At week's end the Baylor Hospital's blood bank was again in the black; the interminable transfusions began again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood for Billy | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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