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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your "Little Wars" story in TIME for Dec. 14 omitted a discussion of the war game that has withstood the test of centuries and undoubtedly will be played when the modern games are wholly forgotten-chess...
Only three times in 20 years has mild-mannered Sampson Cluse, Labor M.P. for South Islington, emerged from Parliament's back-bench obscurity and made a speech. His first was the maiden speech which tradition demands of all M.P.s. His second was when he protested against the means test for those on the dole. Last week Cluse spoke again...
This did not mean that Vandegrift's men had crippled the Japanese Army or air power. It did mean that U.S. forces had withstood their first big test, even though the Japs had tried desperately to rout them. It did not mean that the Japs would give up without having more tries at the growing U.S. forces on Guadalcanal. Last week they came back with eleven destroyers. Dive-bombers and torpedo planes, aided by U.S. surface vessels, sank one, probably another, and damaged three...
...into Darling. These results, while not yet enough to label the P-38 another "best in the world," proved the versatility of a plane that was once the dog of the Air Forces. It is almost four years since Army Test Pilot Lieut. Ben Kelsey flew the first P-38 across the continent in a near-record 7¾ hours' flying time, only to crash when one of the plane's engines conked out at Mitchel Field, N.Y. Before pilots learned to bail out by diving the plane and somersaulting forward, some had their legs sliced...
...violations. In 21 war-plant areas, 60 landlords were haled into court for violating rent ceilings. Throughout the land, OPA brought suit to enjoin 116 meat packers from "upgrading" standard cuts of meat, warned 4,000 retailers to fix their prices or else. These were not random actions but test cases carefully picked for a showdown on whether OPA is really price boss for the duration. For OPA investigations have shown that out of 12,000 groceries and butchers 40% are ceiling violators, and that 70% of 500 East Coast gas stations are disobeying OPA regulations...