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After many a negative, Russia had its first positive victory last week. Russia's best general, Marshal Semion Timoshenko, retook Rostov-on-Don and for the first time made the Germans get their tails up and churn their shanks in the general direction of Berlin.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: First Victory | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

U.S. plenipotentiaries have had trouble with sartorial protocol since the days of Benjamin Franklin. When Minister Franklin appeared before the King of France in plain brown velvet knee breeches he was called uncouth. When Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes refused to expose his shanks to the Court of St. James'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ambassador's Clothes | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Colonel William C. Lee, commander of Fort Benning's Provisional Parachute Group, was puzzled when he found five of his hard-bitten parachute soldiers begging for a ride in an Army airplane. He questioned the paratroopers, found that for all their flights they had never been in an airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Jumpers' Holiday | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

The Tatuta Maru was a symbol of the recoil the U.S. would have to brace itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Recoil | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

They had to learn to use machetes, cut their trails through matted tree and vine. They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare. They slashed down forests, cut away hilltops and hillsides to make sites for their guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Jarman's Junglemen | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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