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The System owes much of its precision and detail to onetime (World War I) Draft Administrator Hugh S. Johnson (who is not bashful about taking due credit in his daily column). Its present spark plug is tawny-haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: How It Works | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Droll is the boisterous, pratt-fall comedy of Guernsey-bosomed, muskellunge-mouthed Martha Raye; hilarious the portrayals of Concho, the Lone Rider's Indian chum, by flap-eared, long-nosed Bert Gordon (Radio's "Mad Russian"), whose accent is as thick as borsch with sour cream. Filling in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

This methodical craftiness was nothing new : it was the old story of Prussian military precision. The new element which was injected into last week's raids was the fury of Adolf Hitler. There was no more "armed reconnaissance" last week - the raids were to destroy, kill, retaliate a thousandfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Into the Heart | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

"Large fires have broken out on either side of the Thames. . . . Everywhere smoke is arising. . . . The wind is driving a black veil across the slums of London's East End. . . . The German planes have dropped their bombs with the utmost precision. Like gnats over a swamp - so the fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Assault in the Air | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

In time, part of the textile industry of the region was ruined because India, Japan and the U. S. set up their own looms. But the Midlands remained a world armory and utensil centre; cutlery, precision instruments, cannon, armor plate, ammunition and ship machinery from Sheffield; locomotives, buttons, wedding rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Britain's Vulnerable Midlands | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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