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Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Necessary for all future study in the field Psych. A also appeals to the non-centrator as a survey. Although Boring has accumulated good material and has organized it well, he has failed to find the spice to make his lectures palatable. Allport, who assists Boring, is the better teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PSYCHOLOGY IS INFANT FIELD, ABLY STAFFED | 4/23/1942 | See Source »

...along the line, the performances are just what Woolcott would have ordered. They've got enough spice to make them tasty, and more than enough wit to make them toothsome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/25/1942 | See Source »

...world got along nicely through most of its history with no sugar at all. There was no sugar in Europe until the Arabs brought their "sweet salt" to Spain in 700 A.D. For centuries afterwards, sugar was regarded as a precious spice, a medicine, a rich man's luxury. Only recently has it been considered a food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sweet Salt | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...whether or not Japan will be able to make use of the resources of the Dutch East Indies in time to improve her own industrial and military capacity. Some observers claim that she has not enough well-trained specialists to reorganize the ruined oil and rubber industries of the Spice Islands. But even if this is true, it is being extremely unrealistic to sit back and say that all we have to do is establish a blockade of the South China Sea and Japan will automatically fold up in short order. Besides the fact that we do not know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: If Singapore Falls | 2/11/1942 | See Source »

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