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Stalking gasoline trucks on their way to filling stations became a new East Coast game. Like rats after the Pied Piper, cars followed trucks up to filling-station pumps, drained out fresh supplies in an hour. Motorists lined up quickly in queues of 50 cars wherever gas was being sold. Each demanded his legal six gallons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gas Pains | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

There were still too many sinkings. The Navy announced this week that twelve merchant ships were sunk last week. That brought the announced total of ships sunk in the Atlantic since Pearl Harbor to 150. Furthermore, a destroyer was lost off Florida-the 1920 four-piper Sturtevant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Lighter-Than-Air-Convoys | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...PIED PIPER-Nevil Shute-Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orphan Convoy | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...Pied Piper reads like a semi-final draft for one of the best sentimental novels to come out of World War II. The telling is not all it might be, but the materials of the tale are surefire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orphan Convoy | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

When the Kearny was struck, to her side steamed a slim, salt-crusted four-piper with signal flags whipping from her bridge. It was the U.S.S. Greer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: The U.S. Navy Finds Trouble | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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