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... As one with a pretty fair stake in private industry, I do not see in the President's clamping down on this self-centered and rugged egoist any resemblances to the Brown-Shirted seizure of private businesses in Berlin a decade ago, nor do I see any grave threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

All this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Southeastern Boom | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

The Passes. The two passes at whose entrances the Russians stood - the Jablonica and Tartar Passes southwestward into Czechoslovakia - are not so rugged and impregnable as some of the territory around Cassino, for example. The passes rise only to about 3,000 ft., above wan dering valleys. The mountains are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Before the Fir-lined Passes | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

The phenomenon of Roundy's success constantly expands. Madison believes he can make or break a University of Wisconsin football coach ("Four football coaches were going to run me out of town but I'm still here and nobody knows where they are"). He averages more than three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Understandable Man | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

The timbered wilderness of north-central British Columbia is a rugged, snow-swept country, where frontiersmen fight for life-and often lose.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: BRITISH COLUMBIA: At Deadman's Creek | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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