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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most uncomfortably parched for oil is Japan, the eastern end of the Axis. The shutting off of supplies from the U.S. and The Netherlands Indies has at a stroke lost her 31,000,000 to 33,000,000 of the 45,000,000 barrels she uses each year. Her reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SUPPLY: HITLER MISSED THE TANKER | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Pleased over this catalysis was bland, bespectacled William Hammatt Davis, a patent attorney by profession, a mediator by choice, who believes in the basic good will and sanity of men. He also believes that the Board is doing a good job, maintains:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Storm over NDMB | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

The Professor Kittredge legends recounted in your Aug. 4 issue are orthodox and generally credited. But I am sure that the great teacher would resent having some of them stand without modification in your widely read columns. ... I once heard him deny publicly at Dartmouth the retort, "Who would examine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

"No fightin' in August!" That's what Joe Louis told Promoter Mike Jacobs last winter when his fight-a-month campaign was first laid out. Reason: August is the climax of the Negro golf season. And the world's greatest fisticuffer, in the four years he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Joe's Open | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

PBA's experts knew more about post offices and customs houses than small dwellings. PBA was slow, clumsy, encrusted with prejudices. In twelve months it built 7,063 of the 32,681 houses assigned it. (In the same period the Navy, building its own emergency houses, nearly finished a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architects for Defense | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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