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...Committee found the Government's early handling of the rubber shortage a welter of "procrastinations, indecisions, confusions of authority and lack of understanding." Another horror the committee found was the fact that rubber officials had ignored the priceless advice of Russian technicians who had ten years' experience in making synthetic rubber. Said the committee: "Inexplicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outline of the Future | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...best time to hit Germany from the air. The Allies have an opportunity they may never have again. German victory in Russia and in the Middle East may soon release Germany's main air fleets for defense of the homeland, or for assaults on the Allies' priceless air base in Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Bombing Of Germany, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...PASSING STRANGER-Richard Sale-Simon & Schuster ($2). A surgically garbed intruder goes gunning (successfully) for a Hollywood obstetrician in a hospital delivery room. Another obstetrician and a little detective named Daniel Webster follow a priceless lot of suspects from California to Manhattan, with more casualties and an unethical but astounding conclusion. Full of surprises, slick dialogue, strange people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in August | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...first time since Dec. 7 a priceless intangible asset finally came into U.S. hands: the attack on the Solomon Islands had snatched the offensive from the Japanese in the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The First Offensive | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Sorrel Top. She is first seen in a Virginia mansion surrounded by pretty sisters and priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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