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...dawn darkness last week, 4,000 G.I.s cordoned off a 45-mile stretch of the Danube in U.S.-occupied Bavaria, rounded up 397 river craft. Tight-jawed G.I.s routed out sleeping sailors and their women, led them shivering on deck with the command, in G.I. German: "Snell-like" (hurry up). One fuzz-cheeked soldier who found a rust-covered fowling piece dashed topside, tripped, fell in the river in the best Keystone comedy manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Famous Victory? | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...gases from Ehrenhaft's tests were analyzed by Brooklyn's authoritative Foster D. Snell, Inc. Results: about i% of oxygen, slightly more at the north magnetic pole, slightly less at the south, none at all if the iron was not magnetized. This analysis seemed to bear out Ehrenhaft's conclusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Magnetic Current? | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Died. Henry Snell, 1st Baron of Plumstead, 79, the House of Lords's capable Government spokesman; in London. Son of a farm laborer, he started work as a potboy, rose to the London County Council, Parliament, the peerage. Onetime Fabian Socialist, he plumped vigorously for marital reforms, himself remained a bachelor. He chose his title, Plumstead, from part of a London working-class district which first sent him to Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Successors. McNary's passing left two jobs to be filled: his Oregon seat, and most important, his minority leadership. In Oregon, -the Portland Oregonian's Palmer Hoyt was considered a strong choice. But Governor Earl Snell may pick an interim Senator so that he can run for the seat himself in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Charley Mac | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Could copies be sent airmail?" suggested John Snell of Hawaii's Equal Rights Commission. "TIME is a godsend to us out here in the middle of the Pacific. "And an Army Major has been paying us $1.00 a week ever since October to fly him as many TIME pages as we could cram into an envelope under the two-ounce limit for airmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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