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...also believes that the U.S. must plan for a long war. And he believes that the democracies will win, but, not unless they swamp Hitler with production, while maintaining morale by avoiding inflation. He believes, in short, in what he considers the lessons of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: All Out | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Coach Mercer Beasley's Princeton tennis team swept every match to swamp the Crimson Varsity 9 to 0 Friday afternoon on the Divinity Field courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Swamps Varsity Tennis Team 9-0 at Divinity Courts | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

When the First Brigade got to Guantanamo, it debarked in a juicy mango swamp near the Navy station. General Smith took one look at underbrush that no man could walk through, began snapping peremptory messages to Washington. Soon building materials and half a dozen bulldozers arrived from the States. The Marines prepared for housekeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: General Smith Does a Job | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Mild was the temblor felt in Mexico's capital compared with the spasm that shook provincial cities. Mexico City, reclaimed from swamp, rests on a shock-absorbing cushion of mud. The earthquake's center was on the Pacific Coast, between Manzanillo and the beach resort of Acapulco. From there it spread fanwise through the hills, north to Jalisco, south to Oaxaca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Earth Moved | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

regulatees, would swamp the regulators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Big Stick | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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