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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German generals in Germany the most significant factor seems to be omitted by every writer and commentator. Pushed into its own territory, Germany had only one hope: of having some extraordinarily effective secret weapon. The revolt of German generals just now after Germany has so jubilantly propagandized the success of their secret robot bomb and more dangerous future secret weapons, shows that German generals, who certainly are in a position to know, openly admit by their revolt that there is no such secret weapon and therefore no hope for Germany. PAUL CHERKASSKY Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...shirts--on the outside, of course, transcriptions which read something like this, "hc19876k2" or "GOT459z91--*lb." At the end of three or four washings you really have a different looking shirt. It only goes with your different looking undies and trousers. The secret of the Laundry's success, the General Mgr., Bill Collector, Truck Driver, told me, is the fact that your laundry is first aged for a two week period before being professed. That is the secret...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

...were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Mukden Incident, New Style | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...success of the synthetic rubber program antiquates the prewar economics of rubber. The U.S. is now a producer as well as a consumer, need no longer pay tribute to the old British-Dutch natural rubber cartel. This week State Department officials and industry men went to the London Rubber Conference to report to British and Dutch representatives that the U.S. has more than 50 plants operating, more abuilding, and a million-pound annual production capacity. No commitments will be made at this conference, but the U.S. delegates will not have to stand out side, hats in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBBER: Synthetic and the Future | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Finer's conclusion: TVAs abroad would probably equal the demonstrably colossal success of the TVA at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: The Yangtze Valley Authority | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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