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...with engines purring, at the English Channel, the nervous U. S. public wanted to know what the Defense Commission was up to. Where were the results? There were none to exhibit. Motormaker Knudsen was tooling up industry to produce the armed forces' materiel, giving orders to the best, quickest, cheapest manufacturers, easing industry on to a war footing. Meantime Congress, the President, the Army & Navy kept expanding their objectives. Not until late July did the U. S. defense program jell into: 1) a two-ocean Navy, 2) equipment (tanks, guns, artillery, ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROCUREMENT: 100 Days | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Pregnant women (those near their time were identified by blue tickets) and mothers who accompanied their babies to the country were the quickest to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Evacuation Miscarried | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

While Kansas towns burn and North and South begin Civil War, Will Cantrill turns from school teaching to guerilla warfare to get to the top of the world in the quickest time possible. With a woman at the bottom of his ambitions and marshal Bob Seton always waiting to take her away, the plot preserves all the aspects of a rip-roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

...would never mind living in tatters if civilization and humanity were to be served. But then, it was possible that she wouldn't look as well in rags as she did in her Cashmere sweater and Trimingham's sport skirt. For a wild moment Vag wondered what was the quickest way to the fame and fortune which were certain to come his way sooner or later. A job with the Times, a year or so of brilliant dispatches filed from Bucharest, and then--Vag, free-lance writer; Vag., special adviser to the State Department; Vag's best selling memoirs. After...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/18/1940 | See Source »

...Octogenarian Bradley it was an elixir. Winner of four Kentucky Derbies, he has been living for the day when his green & white silks will again "get there the quickest," and thereby establish a record not likely to be broken. In Bimelech, whom he named after the Biblical warrior, Abimelech (dropping the A because it is an old Bradley custom to B-name all horses), Colonel Bradley has great faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Big | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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