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Pantelleria lies smack in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. It is about half the size of Malta and has a simmering volcano at its center. Its airfield is reported to be connected by tunnel with a small underground hangar. The harbor can be used as a submarine base. The whole island is strongly fortified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Their Islands | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...Fourth Term movement got two pats and one smack last week. Endorse ments came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Progress of the Fourth Term | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Republicans got in the smack, and it was a beauty, reminding bystanders of nothing less than the 1932-1936 Democratic efforts of wily Charley Michelson, the Old Master, who had a knack of making the Republicans look like stumblebums. Replying to Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker's suggestion that the 1944 campaign be held late, G.O.P. Chairman Harrison Spangler wrote: "We are willing to accept your plan for a short campaign ... if you can and will give assurance that Mr. Roosevelt does not have the ambition for and will not accept nomination for a fourth term. ... If you find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Progress of the Fourth Term | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Policy and Attitude. The report plowed smack into renegotiation's weak est point, the same one war contractors have stewed over for ten months: inconsistency. The Committee added that Army administration (75% of all contracts) "has been unnecessarily cumbersome" be cause military men insisted on running a civilian show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROFITS: Sense In War Contracts | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Another trouble: meat price ceilings are in the wrong places and at the wrong levels. All retail meat prices are pegged at the March 1942 level, but livestock prices (exception: hogs) are as free as a steer on the range. Inevitable result: a record wartime demand pushed livestock prices smack against retail meat ceilings, squeezed profit margins so thin many a jobber and packer was temporarily forced out of the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Steer Hangs High | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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