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...real trouble here is that-from the standpoint of total war-the U.S. would have been better off if more of the wolf-crying had turned out to be true. For the continued existence of many peacetime businesses, the painfully slow death of those that are really doomed, is almost a dead loss to the U.S. war potential. It is wasteful of man-hours, of management, of materials and of machinery-for scrap if not for production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping Beauty Treatment | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...what is more interesting from a local standpoint, is the Battle of the Big Three. Eli Yale, which recently announced a Yale Plan which provides for every man in college, has two more alumni than Harvard. The Bulldog graduates number 23, and there are 21 Cambridge-educated sailors. The Princeton Tiger will be somewhat out of the running if things come to a showdown. Ten men from Old Nassau are listed at the school. M.I.T. has 16 men in training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS AT NAVAL SCHOOL CONTINUE COLLEGE RIVALRIES | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

Disease. From a family standpoint, Don Francisco Franco had plenty of reason to smack down his upstart inlaw. Serrano had dutifully fathered the six children of Señora Zita, handsome sister of Franco's wife. But a few months ago, Spaniards reported with bitter humor, Serrano had presented his wife with a social disease. His name was linked in Madrid café jingles to at least three women: the wife of a South American diplomat, the sister of a Spanish writer and a comely actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Family Affairs | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...that Holland and Germany should each remain perfectly free and completely autonomous in all internal affairs and in many international relations, but that they should form parts of the same economic unit. Cultural conditions, however, including the prejudices of the present war, may make this undesirable from the standpoint of Holland. Therefore, that country may have to find its place in some other economic unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...From the standpoint of you men, if you went a complete training for business it will be necessary to come back after the war. Certainly most men in the IA course will want to supplement their training here or get it somewhere else, either by experience or by going to some other School. We do not represent the training we are giving now as our ideal of business training for peace-time

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 584 MEN TRAIN FOR WAR WORK AT BUSINESS SCHOOL | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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