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The great military volcano of the Mediterranean got ready to erupt. From Port Said to Gibraltar, steam burst from a hundred vents, and the pent-up force of military, naval and air might rumbled like subterranean lava flows.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, The Mediterranean: The Ground Rumbles | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Every night the human guinea pigs, after eating "test food," went to bed with a battery of scientific apparatus hitched up to their toes, a microphone strapped to their stomachs. They did not have very comfortable nights. Ohio State Physiologist Hugh Boyd McGlade woke them periodically to ask if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Sleep, To Dream. . . | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Nowadays many a trucker, rooted out of bed at night, is called upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hair-Raising Tales | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Land-locked Denver staged a significant "launching" last week. At the Denver railroad yard, a pretty stenographer crashed a bottle of Pike's Peak snow water against the first of eight freight cars, and the "Good Ship Mountain Maid" rumbled westward-loaded with prefabricated steel for the hulls of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Denver Launching | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

A tank detachment scuttered into the town. A train rumbled across the repaired causeway. A fleet steamed up the harbor to the naval base. Singapore was Japanese.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ASIA: Light of the South | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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