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...great scientific achievements of World War II is: 1) The jet-propulsion engine. 2) The robot submarine. 3) A better explosive than TNT. 4) An insecticide that promises to conquer mosquitoes, bedbugs, roaches, flies. 5) A wonder drug twice as effective as penicillin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 23, 1944 | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...ridge outside the town found seven trolley cars of post-Tooner-ville design, they couldn't resist making their own V-weapon. A car was hauled to the tracks that led down to the city, packed like a Christmas stocking with captured shells, bullets, rockets, dynamite, TNT, hand grenades and ack-ack. On its sides G.I.s daubed a picture of Hitler, "Heil Heel," "Aachen Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Floperoo | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Lieut. Commander Oscar Hagberg, recalled from submarine duty in the Pacific, found himself tutoring one of the mightiest loads of TNT ever assembled on the banks of the Severn. His forward armor, undeniable from end to end, sparkled with two All-Americans : Don Whitmire, tackle, and Jack Martin, center. Behind the seven pillars were Hal Hamberg, Navy's triple-threat ace of last year, and a backfieldful of ex-Alabama, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Penn State stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Teens and TNT | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...Rome last week, while newsmen shot questions at him, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down on an open barrel of political TNT and calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Prime Minister! | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Winston Churchill belched smoke, got up from his barrel of political TNT, and answered. "That depends," he said, "on how big they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. Prime Minister! | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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