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...amuse themselves in shelters, to sleep under kitchen tables, under stairs or at their desks. Even nursery-school tots know what to do when Teacher cries: "Run, rabbits, run!" The war has given unexampled score to children's natural instinct for collecting: they collect paper, bottles, bones, aluminium, scrap -it all goes into the war effort. Wartime schooling has also taught Britain's educators a big lesson: when they tried to cut down to the three Rs, pupils quickly became bored. To revive them, teachers had to give them a broader curriculum...
This left two men free: Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov from Leningrad and Marshal Budenny from the south. Joseph Stalin did not scrap them. He gave them a new job, the clearest signal yet that Russia will fight to the last snowball: to form great new armies from raw conscripts, armies to take their stand beyond Moscow to fight for the lands beyond the Volga, beyond the Urals. The new armies will be ill-trained, ill-equipped, ill-fortified. But they would not be formed if the Russians did not still intend to fight...
...gesture against the "militarism" of the Church of England, last winter he stopped paying $1,280 a year to support the ducal church on his estate in Bedfordshire and the rents of two neighboring vicarages. He also refused to donate the iron railings of his London properties for scrap iron to be made into tanks...
...clean design and high aerodynamic efficiency, the Airacobra is likely to get bomber-escort jobs in its packet of missions. While Builder Larry Bell and U.S. air chiefs awaited further dope on the 'Cobras' performance, Britain's Airacobra pilots were anxiously waiting to get into a scrap that would supply...
...first priority violator to be caught (TIME, Oct. 20) received its punishment last week. The victim: Chicago's Central Pattern and Foundry Co., found guilty of using its priority rating to buy illegally 6,075 Ib. of aluminum scrap from Milwaukee Scrap Metal Co., 19,530 Ib. from Brodey Brothers; and of illegally selling for non-defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat...