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...left out one item (except by implication) in your list of articles, which the Navy still insists shall be made from virgin metal [TIME, Aug. 3]. I refer to brass hats, another particular in which a change of specifications is apparently long overdue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...spare moments, General Yount liked to refer to his command as "astronomical." The objective was stepped up from 12,000 to 30,000 pilots a year before Pearl Harbor, jumped to 50,000 afterward. Now it is far higher, eventually will probably exceed 100,000 pilots a year-plus bombardiers, navigators and gunners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Here Come the Pilots | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...under strict orders from gentlemanly Owner Field never to refer to his own or Colonel McCormick's war record, refrained from replying in kind. But Chicagoans, appalled at Colonel McCormick's loud bad manners, were eager last week to recite the bare facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Soldiers | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...exterminated. He repeatedly pointed to the U.S.S.R. as a Communist peril and an Asian rival to be driven from Japan's ordained sphere. Less often, less pointedly in the middle '30s, when Japan was shaping the final blows to come, did he and other military spokesmen refer to the U.S. as an enemy. But the U.S. never lapsed from their memories and their plans. With delicate foresight and precision, they geared their machine of conquest to strike in any order that world events dictated. As it happened, China was first, the U.S. second in timing. Russia was third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Man With a Plan | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...resolution had reached New Delhi. The Viceroy's Council met in the long, high-windowed council room, darkened against the glaring sun. What they would do was a foregone conclusion. The British Government of India does not possess the authority to commit Constitutional suicide; at best it could refer the decision to His Majesty's Government at London. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Toward Disaster? | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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