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...head till he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Girded Loins | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Cinemactor Tyrone Power, 28, enlisted as a private in the Marine Corps Reserve in Washington. He will probably be on inactive status till he finishes a Navy picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 31, 1942 | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Barracks with Bath | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

...Counted the days till the return from the hills of the pukka mem-sahibs-the blithe daughters of British officialdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Doughboys Abroad | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Even that billion-dollar till-tapper Jesse Jones knows there is not enough money lying around loose to take the squeeze off the whole food business. Last week he began scouting around Congress to test the chances of an open-faced subsidy bill. Washington guesses the annual cost of subsidies at $500,000,000 to $2,000,000,000. For the first three months of the new fiscal year OPA unofficially thinks just under $300,000,000 will be needed. But nobody knows how fast the need for subsidies will snowball as more and more costs slip out of line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Squeezes and Subsidies | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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