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For this angry gesture the Germans found time. They also found time to sow mines with a generous hand. Cautious Red sappers, one Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: On to Kiev | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Army & Navy authorities have gone after the rats with traps, poison and sanitation control in the village. In addition, hunters have been forbidden to shoot such valued rat killers as hawks, eagles, owls and foxes. As a final touch, the Army called up part of its K-9 Corps, ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: WOOFS to the Rescue | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

It distresses Nancy and Defense Attorney Godfrey Higgs that Freddy still refuses to take his plight seriously. Before the bar he lolls, stretches his long legs, traps flies, winks at friends, strokes his shiny Vandyke and spins in his swivel chair. Beyond a formal denial of guilt, he has said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Faith and Circumstance | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Cautiously, under a butter-colored moon, U.S. 3rd Division patrols reconnoitered the last eight miles to Messina. The stony Sicilian landscape flashed now & then with snipers' fire. The road was edged with the menace of mines, booby traps and demolition chasms. But clearly the stubborn, skillful, beaten enemy had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Finis and Prologue | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

"There were land mines and booby traps. Most of the booby traps were crude, such as a floorboard obviously raised to accommodate a detonator, and not at all up to the fictional standard of Japanese cunning. However, a few men were killed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Janfu | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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