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...operator to dim his lights, he was unperturbed. Said he: "We'll have dimout rides now and I believe the young folks will like that." This was no news to Coney Island, for the past month dimmed beyond recognition. "Coney Island," said a cop, "is just one big tunnel of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Wartime Loving | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

That he found within a tunnel near the tenement of Jones...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: THE LIVING EXPLORE THE DEAD AT PEABODY | 5/27/1942 | See Source »

...University of Chicago campus, where scientists have shelved 90% of their peace time projects and now file their current research in code. Armed police bar visitors from General Electric's laboratories, 100% converted to direct war work. The entire University of Washington campus (with its great wind tunnel) is closed off and guarded at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science Hush-Hushed | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...worked with his racers, he evolved a boat that could jump over logs and even small spits of land without injuring propeller or other vital organs. From this grew the Higgins Eureka, a 36-foot motorboat with a spoonbill bow, a V midship section, and a semi-tunnel protecting the propeller, so sturdy that it can rush right up on a beach without hurting itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higgins is the Name | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Dilemma. In Alameda, Calif., the parents of newly-born Linda Johnson wondered whether to register the birth in Alameda or Contra Costa County. The baby was born on the way to the hospital, in a tunnel under the county line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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