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...water is shallow and only the small outriggers can use the gulf's shores. To land at Lingayen an enemy would have to anchor two or three miles offshore, lighter his troops to the beach. Once ashore, he would find that the single rail road and two trunk highways leading south to Manila are really a succession of causeways over the low-lying land. In the rainy season the valley is a sea of mud. In dry weather the elaborate system of irrigation dikes can be breached with the same effect. With the causeways blown up, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oriental Rampart | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...same idea. We were all wrong as in spite of attempts on my part to avoid it I came down in a spinney of young oak trees, pulling up short about 20 ft. from the ground, hanging in my harness. I managed to get hold of a trunk, pull myself over to it, get out of the parachute harness and climb to the ground where I remained quite still until I was found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...towns were without electricity until next forenoon; two brothers were electrocuted when a wire fell on to their automobile. On one 100-mile stretch of Oregon highway, 30 big trees dropped across the pavement, stopped traffic dead. A Washington State patrolman used his brakes in a hurry when a trunk fell right in front of him. When he got out to look, another landed right behind, trapped him for fair. At the Kelso (Wash.) municipal airport, the gale lifted a temporary frame hangar off its foundations. Three planes skittered out across the field, wound up as overturned wrecks. Houseboats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: West Coast Blow | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Last week preparations for Christmas went on as usual. In the east end of the second-floor corridor stood the small family tree, decorated with ornaments handed down via attic trunk from one Christmas to the next. And, as in the past, the President's plans called for the familiar, pleasant ritual of the season-the wishing of Merry Christmas to the members of his office staff, the scene in which the President and his wife receive the members of the White House staff and their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: QUIET CHRISTMAS | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Packard values its traditional rectangular radiator, has kept it on the new cars but smoothed corners elsewhere. Sleekness is achieved by eliminating hood louvers. Available in the five series is true air conditioning with cooling unit and humidifier in the trunk. Two-tone color combinations are outside and inside. Prices: $907 to $5,550 (for LeBaron limousine). Besides making cars, Packard is busy building a new plant to make 9,000 Rolls-Royce airplane engines for U. S. and England. The engines will be worth nearly $190,000,000. (Packard's total 1939 automobile sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The'4Is | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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