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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know Dr. Chaffee by sight (or by the poster of the Quiz Kids) and have heard-Irim speak to us upon our arrival. However, few realize what a prominent scientist and busy executive he is. All the C E's are familiar (or fervently wish they were) with his text on the Theory of Thermionic Tube. He is to only Director of Cruft Laboratory and its teaching staff but holds the combined honor of being Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Communication Engineering...
...know Dr. Chaffee by sight (or by the poster of the Quiz Kids) and have heard-Irim speak to us upon our arrival. However, few realize what a prominent scientist and busy executive he is. All the C E's are familiar (or fervently wish they were) with his text on the Theory of Thermionic Tube. He is to only Director of Cruft Laboratory and its teaching staff but holds the combined honor of being Rumford Professor of Physics and Gordon McKay Professor of Communication Engineering...
When Background for War was reprinted in booklet form it sold more copies than any other non-fiction war book has ever sold and became the standard text for studying the war in hundreds of colleges and schools the country over. The purpose of Background for Peace is exactly the same as the purpose of Background for War-to give our subscribers a living understanding of the great new problems and questions Americans may soon be called upon to face. Now as always TIME'S aim is to inform rather than to make recommendations-to-give you the factual...
...Texas Co.'s picture of a fat, repulsive Teuton beside a text saying: "You've got a real, personal adversary to fight just as one of our marines who comes face to face with a Jap in the jungle. Your opponent is a 'man-in-the-street' in Berlin ... or Tokio. . . . It's you against him-your 'morale' against his. ['Morale'] means driving under 35 miles per hour-and not grousing about it. It means cutting out pleasure driving-with pleasure. It means saving fuel oil, living in a colder home...
This ditty, roared out by gruff Lord Beaverbrook in Britain's august House of Lords, was a handy text for the war's great new development: a race for the initiative on Germany's western and southern fronts...