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...Club was founded last winter in a wood-and-tar-paper barracks of the U.S. Army's Northwest Service Command at Whitehorse by officers and civilian contractors who had just returned from a particularly chilly trip to Skagway. Its membership today totals only about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: Frost Snorters | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Town. Kusaka had been denounced by two American Legionnaires (Jeweler Edward John Gare Jr. and Dentist John E. Boland), supported by employes of the state insane asylum, members of the Hampshire County Grange, the building trades unions, and the Hampshire Gazette. Threats had been made to tar & feather Kusaka, to dump him into Paradise Pond, traditional scene of campus spooning. Tomatoes were mistakenly heaved into the house of a French professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Unlisted Course | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Western hemisphere still has vast reserves in four gasoline sources cheaper than coal. In order of cost: 1) petroleum (some four billion tons of known reserves), 2) natural gas, 3) tar sands, 4) oil shales. All this adds up to 60 billion tons of oil; even if no new petroleum or natural gas reserves are found (unlikely), there would still be 40 billion tons left by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coal Joyride | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...their New Mexican training field, Davis' pretty secretary (Anne Shirley) romantically if irrelevantly pads out the footage. The bomb sight argument is finally settled in a night raid on Tokyo, when Captain Oliver compensates for his former skepticism by making a Japanese aircraft factory (and himself) a fiery tar get for the Norden needle-threader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Sixth day. . . . We tried to start an oil smudge fire for the rescue party which was out trying to find a possible way to get over the glacier and up on the icecap to us. . . . The oil is like tar. . . . Rescue party has little success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Delicious Meal Awaits | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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