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...Communist Party of New York city adopted a new campaign symbol: instead of the famed, crescent-shaped hammer & sickle of the Red banner, a sledge hammer and pitchfork in the shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: For Victory | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

With the Vicar's stirrup pump, a pitchfork and a spade

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: God Save the King | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...nothing it asked for, but none of its officials resigned. The Prime Minister made them hang on by stating categorically that it would be unpatriotic to do so. Director-General Monckton summed up their feelings: "If the powers that be want us to attack a tank with a pitchfork, we'll go to it. But don't start telling us our pitchforks are tanks, because we know the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Bloomsbury | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...told what he had done. He had just left a farmhouse after delivering a baby. As he stuck his forceps in his hip pocket, he saw an airplane "crashing to earth and the ... pilot . . . floating gracefully from the sky." The doctor dashed back to the farm, snatched up a pitchfork, went after the parachutist, whom he found in the garden, still tangled in his harness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Forceps and Pitchfork | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...asked the doctor uncertainly, brandishing the pitchfork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: With Forceps and Pitchfork | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

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