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Confusing fifth-column talk was the attitude of the New Deal toward the Communists. Veterans in the Pacific Northwest were angered that, during talk of a U. S. shortage of plane-manufacturing equipment, three trainloads of precision tools, dies, and machines for making airplane motors passed through Washington, Russia-bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AND PEACE: Under Strain | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

"A good tug of war team of the '80s, whether in school or college," wrote onetime Tugger Gordon, "compared favorably with a well-trained crew in technique, precision and rhythm. . . . There were five men to a team. . . . The rope was about seventy-five feet long. . . . Exactly in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tug of War | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

About 15 persons with eight planes are expected to compete in the various events, which include acrobatics, spot landings, precision maneuvers, bombing with flour sacks, and a navigation contest. A novel event is the observation hunt in which the pilots and observers are shown a spot on the map which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fliers Announce Spring Air Races | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

Through the noisy aisles of U. S. machine-tool plants last week rubber-tired food wagons glided. Whenever it pleased them, overalled machinists, black-lipped and pasty-faced under the flourescent green lights, stopped their work for between-meal snacks of milk, sandwiches, crullers, pie. Yankee toolmakers are brought up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Waiting in Line | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

TAMPA, Florida--The worm finally turned. Casper Milquetoast rose up and smacked down his tormentor. In other words, the much-maligned National League, playing with verve and precision triumphed over the swaggering American Leaguers today in the first spring all-star game for the benefit of the Finnish Relief Fund...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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