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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about an alphabetical list of Somoza rackets running from A to Z; they say that X stands for rackets unknown to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Enough for My Family | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Monty has come a long way in the five years since he was a studious, all but unknown staff-college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Meeting in Normandy | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Whether or not they could explain it, the phenomenon itself was an old story to airmen. They have known for some time that mankind has caught up with the speed of sound and is being catapulted by the airplane into a weird, high-speed unknown which plays some very strange tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster-than-Sound Effects | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

...Epidemic diarrhea and vomiting of unknown cause is what Dr. Hobart Ansteth Reimann and associates of Philadelphia call widespread epidemics of the familiar 24-to-48-hour diarrhea and vomiting (commonly known as intestinal flu, gyppy tummy, the trots, molly-grables), which almost everyone has had at some time or other. Since the disorder cannot always be traced to food (TIME, June 19), the doctors think it may be a virus infection, possibly transmitted through the nose as well as the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.M.A. Meeting | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...British correspondents covering British troops had fewer difficulties. Lacking dispatches from their own men, U.S. newspapers published stories under unknown British bylines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little & Late | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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