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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every four weeks some 15,000 new items are added and 10,000 out-of-date ones are thrown away to keep the walls of the TIME & LIFE Building from bursting. To save space we keep newspapers on microfilm-800 pages on a roll the size of a sardine...
They Will Strike Again. Righting the Oklahoma was a long and complicated job: "To roll her back, salvagers patched what holes they could get at, pumped out what compartments they could and lightened her as much as possible. On the shore, some 200 yards away, winches were anchored in the ground and from them steel cables were strung across the water and fixed to clamps fastened along the Oklahoma's bottom. The winches turned, the cables began to pull, and very gradually, inch by inch, the big ship rolled. Week after week the process went on. The clamps were...
Some of the lowest-cost books in U.S. publishing history will roll off the presses next month for shipment directly to frontline soldiers and sailors. Armed Service Editions, sponsored by the Council on Books in Wartime, will be paperbound, two columns to a page, shaped to be carried in a coverall pocket, to be passed along or thrown away. Shipments of 1,500,000 are planned for June, 35,000,000 for the next year. Titles will include fiction and nonfiction, a few classics, nothing technical or heavy. Typical June selections: The Human Comedy; Tom Sawyer; The Forest...
...greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...still resented the "yoo-hoo" incident of two years ago, when Lear disciplined the 35th Division's (Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska) Quartermaster regiment. But there was more to the grudge. After the 1941 maneuvers Lear had the thankless job of overhauling his command, and one of the heads to roll was that of 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman of Missouri, cousin of Missouri's junior Senator Harry Truman. Statesman Clark denounced Ben Lear from the Senate floor...