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But where the superiority quickly tells, and where it told last week in the newest sector of fighting, is on an extended front, along which heavy Russian forces can strike, one dawn at one point, the next 50 miles to the west, now here, now there, unexpectedly. Along such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Hammer & Sickle | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Author Thorp's funniest and most tactful chapter deals with reform in the movies and such organizations as the League of Decency, the Hays office, the State boards of censorship. Censors in Virginia, she finds, are most concerned about sex; in New York with political corruption; in Kansas with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Operations in Sperry Gyro's 11-story Brooklyn plant are romantically secretive. Sperry employes (all U. S. citizens) wear colored badges (a different color for each division), come and go under the vigilant eyes of watchmen. Except for a few top officials, no Sperry employe knows much about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Profits & Secrets | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

A. R. P. News also is a vigilant critic of the Government's protection policies (the latest issue complains that Government-supplied sandbags are of inferior quality and quickly disintegrate) and a mine of cheerless advertising. "An Evertrusty Steel Helmet is an absolute necessity," declares the manufacturer of an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Absolute Necessity | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

To Wang Ching-wei the city of Peking must be filled with memories of a rebellious youth. In 1910, when he was 26, he went there to plot the assassination of Prince Chun, Prince Regent of Imperial China. Coplotter was Miss Chen Pi-chun, his fiancee, later to become his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Puppet No. 1 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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