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...Plum seemed to have written in some transatlantic mag-Saturday Afternoon Post, was it? Some such name. Well, anyhow, some ghastly nonsense about Fascism not mattering as long as it lets one live in comfort. Y'know, sometimes," said Bertie, hitching his R.A.F. uniform to ease the Wooster rump into a more comfortable posture, "sometimes I think Old Plum is getting a bit overripe. An aunt of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jeeves Grieves | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...collection of doodads on the desk of Doodaddict Franklin D. Roosevelt was added a thingamajig that would have gladdened the heart of any patriotic hex. It was a figure of Adolf Hitler, leaning over like a fraternity pledge awaiting a paddle. On its rump, a pincushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Uniformity | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...March 1, 1935, he got the Saar by plebiscite. On March 7, 1936, he reoccupied the Rhineland. On March 13, 1938, he marched into Austria. On March 15, 1939, he occupied the rump of Czecho-Slovakia. On April 9, 1940, he absorbed Denmark and invaded Norway. On April 6, 1941, he drove into Yugoslavia and Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Late | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...just to the right of his soft rump lay Burma (see map], and Burma was still in British control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Burmese Rump | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...Rump. Except for two shortages-manganese and mercury-Russia's great rump is sufficiently stocked in all vital resources. The Kuznetsk Basin has five times as great coal reserves as the Donets Basin, now in German hands. Oil fields in the plains adjoining the Urals have been developed to the point where they could partially compensate for the loss of Baku. The area should not lack water power: on the Angara River the biggest power dam in the world is being built. Even without the good black earth of the Ukraine, Russia could be agriculturally self-sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: INDUSTRIAL FRONT: The Great Trek | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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