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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no doubt that if the war potential of North America is organized and thrown into the scale, the combined strength of America and the British Empire can certainly surpass and outlast that of Germany and her satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: We Can Take It | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Russians have adopted the slogan, "We must surpass the capitalistic countries in industrialization." But I cannot believe they will ever surpass the United States in the production of cotton. Your figure of 3,000,000 tons must refer to seed cotton which would amount to around 4,000,000 bales of lint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...final appeal to the United States to steel herself against aggression a scene of piercing terror which shows Mr. Hitchcock still in firm control. To the very end, "Foreign Correspondent" remains his show. The result is that the thriller has reached a height that it will be difficult to surpass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/27/1940 | See Source »

...Negro children surpass whites in liking for scientific books, poetry, newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Young Tarheels | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...such specialty products as gaskets, fuel hoses, heavy-duty wire insulation, U. S. industry is already making synthetic rubbers. They cost more than natural rubber, but surpass it in resistance to oil, oxidation, sunlight, acids. Notable among them are Thiokol and Du Pont's neoprene. But none of them has been turned successfully into the finished product that uses 77% of U. S. rubber consumption-tires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Buna Plant | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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