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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were also nine other naval launchings during the week, as the 35,000-ton battleship Massachusetts, five destroyers and three minesweepers went down the ways. Two of the destroyers, the Hambleton and Rodman, launched in a twin ceremony at Kearny, N.J., were a month behind schedule. Reason: the shipbuilders' strike that finally forced Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. to turn over its property to the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: One Day: 14 Ships | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Married. Daisy Hilton, 33, Siamese twin; and Harold Estep, 25, nightclub entertainer; in Buffalo, N.Y. Daisy's sister is Mrs. James Walker Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...voice rose terribly through the three days. After her 16-inchers had been fired singly and by pairs, they were fired in turret salvos. After her 5-in. all-purpose guns (for surface and aerial targets) had been fired singly they were fired by twin mounts, then by ten-gun broadsides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Biggest Roar Afloat | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer) is such a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson's ghoulish classic that it might well serve as a final mausoleum for the bones of the ill-fated Harley Street medico and his test-tube twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...Twin passions of Fritz Todt's life are engineering and Adolf Hitler. Just out of the University of Munich he served in World War I, joined the Nazi Party in 1923, remained a devoted and inconspicuous disciple, at length became a Standard-bearer in the Storm Troops. He worked as a construction engineer for a road-building company until the Nazis came to power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Constructive Nazi | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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