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Morse's group solved this problem by making large, high-powered versions of a diffusion pump invented by General Electric's Physicist Irving Langmuir. The diffusion pump works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Much Ado About Nothing | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

The Draft. In Chicago, Dishwasher John Atkinson, picked up for being without a draft card, told the judge that he used to be a trapper, had once caught a skunk in one of his traps, had to burn his draft card as well as his clothes. In Detroit, Perry James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

What Price Audacity? The Cherkassy bridgehead was one of the Ukrainian chessboard squares on which the two armies played their complex game of blood and wits. It was a game of thrusts, traps, flanking attacks. It was a game in which the player with more patience and stamina, greater reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Counterattack | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

The harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: City of Havoc | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Why Salerno? When Lieut. General Mark Wayne Clark's troops landed at Salerno, the troops of the Eighth Army had been in Italy for six days. They held about 750 sq. mi, of Italy's Calabrian peninsula and they were moving steadily northward and eastward. The British V...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Qualified Victory | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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