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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second FORTUNE probe, approaching from another angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: 66% on Roosevelt | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

Preparation. Last November the Russians began to probe the enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: A Sea Regained | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

When World War II caught the U.S. desperately short of magnesium, a No. 1 component of incendiaries and planes, the Federal Government spilled out $515,000,000 to expand the infant industry. Last week, the Senate's wallet-watching Truman Committee ended a two-year probe of: 1) whether the U.S. got its money's worth; 2) what will happen to the new industry at war's end. Its report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAGNESIUM: Dow Up, Jones Down | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...healing time safely, he offers a compromise technique. First Dr. Buie determines the direction of the cyst's channels with a probe. Then he opens up each channel, removes the normal skin above it and, if the cyst wall is reasonably healthy, stitches the wall to the surrounding skin. By using the cyst wall as skin, Dr. Buie avoids wasting much tissue. Average healing time is 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jeep Disease | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...smack into the biggest hornet's nest in domestic politics. Franklin Roosevelt's relations with Southern Democrats have never been worse. The FEPC ruling merely poured gasoline on a fire. Virginia's Representative Howard Smith, always ready to investigate the New Deal, stood ready to probe the whole FEPC setup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FEPC v. the Railroads | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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