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There, under a rust-colored banner bearing the legend "Trust in God and Work," the President received his sixth honorary degree, and extemporaneously admonished the nation: "Work, work, work! . . . Let me tell you a secret. Leadership isn't worth very much unless there are a few workers and followers. That is true on the farm . . . the coal mines . . . the railroads . . . the automobile factories . . . the mills. Get in line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sixth Degree | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...Vectolite, a powerful lightweight magnetic material, made by compressing powdered iron rust and cobalt oxide, used in sensitive aircraft controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Claghorn Compass | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Thus had come the first U.S. strike killing in three years. George McNear's tracks were red now with more than rust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Afternoon in Gridley | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...great monument to chewing-gum lit up by floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week for the white man what the South couldn't do in 100 years to the Negro." "The most typical American city" was Cleveland. "Possessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aphrodite Ascending | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...office of Fiscal Director and gathered the Navy's financial reins into his hands. More recently he established the Office of Scientific Research and Development, whose job it is to keep scientific research focused on military aims. If rust overtakes the Navy, it will be while Forrestal's back is turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Navy Day, 1945 | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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