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Normally a quiet town of 56.165, Natal is crowded and a-boom. Its hospital is a dormitory for the airport builders; its hotel overflows with engineers, ferry pilots, tractor drivers, Axis spies. Two U.S. bulldozer operators took rooms in a high-class brothel, although they do not like the food. Eventually Pan Am hopes to build a hotel near its field, eleven bumpy miles from town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pan Am in Brazil | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...steel combine is larger than any in Europe. The Ural Freight Car Building Works in Tagil produced 120,000 two-axle cars in 1939-as many as were made elsewhere in all Russia. There have been many conversions: the Tagil Car Works is now producing military vehicles; the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant now makes tanks; factories in Novosibirsk mass-produce military-type skis. The diversity is surprising: the auxiliary capital produces carburetors, armatures, railway equipment, cinema apparatus, tractor parts, tubes, leather goods, foodstuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: INDUSTRIAL FRONT: The Great Trek | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Army game, extravagant equipment rentals (paid for by the Government), is being played all over again: a Washington, D.C. contractor rented a $4,200 tractor for $3,907.42 and a truck valued at $425 for $414.34; a Chicago contractor paid $1,023 rent on a $1,400 truck; a New Jersey contractor rented a 1927 dump truck valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Whose Fault? | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Most of this area has been reconquered, and the slightly sour smell of death hovers over it. ... Fields have been chewed by tractor and tank treads and pitted by shellbursts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: The Sour Smell of Death | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...display were 36 75s, converted to anti-tank fire and mounted in armored trucks with tractor treads which could take them nearly anywhere a tank could go (see cut). On tiny "jeeps" and swamp buggies-jeeps with enormous wheels and bus-size tires for mushing through mud and snow-were 18 ordinary anti-tank guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Tank Destroyers | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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