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...glider trainers on graduated ropes, the little 300-lb. ships take off first, float about 50 ft. up, pointing their noses down to give the ropes some slack so that the plane can get off. Once in the air, like the yachtsman who watches the trembling sail lest it spill the wind, a glider pilot must keep his towline taut or suffer a jerk when it suddenly springs tight. Even in the air, an instructor makes a student keep his ship about 50 feet higher than the towplane to avoid its slipstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: At Twentynine Palms | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...Germany, to show how a modern nation wages war with food as a major weapon. On the home front fats are turned into high explosives for the Wehrmacht's arsenal, apples become alcohol for fuel, releasing high-grade fuel for the Luftwaffe's planes, milk refineries spill out lubricating oil for the submarine fleets. Farmers grow what they are told to grow, and the soybean (twice the strength of meat at a quarter the price) is the armed forces' basic ration. It is mixed into almost every dish the soldiers eat and, Food suggests, may even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Suddenly Washington looked at the wave and grew afraid. It was mounting too high, it might spill on a reef of bad news in a spray of broken hopes. Abruptly the news changed. Washington tried to drive the wave back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blow Cold | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...where Congress was least likely to look for it: 1) on Hitler, because the Navy and Maritime Commission were naturally too rushed to look into overpayments, and 2) on Congress itself, for not writing the kind of tax bill that would recapture Todd's profits. Said affable, joshing, spill-the-beans Jim Barnes, "There should not be any profits to amount to anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Shipyard Candor | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Today copper is 12? a lb., not 16?. Yet the Morenci ores, though low-grade, will still yield a profit. When production starts, nine 125-ton electric locomotives will haul 75,000 tons of rock from the pit each day, dump 50,000 tons of waste into the canyons, spill the rest into ore bins. Each ton of ore will yield 21 lb. of copper-a daily smelter production of around 260 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COPPER: Newest U. S. Mine | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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