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...water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when wet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Up from the Mud | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Democrats and ALPsters, instead of glowing over victory, rushed into print with as many "explanations" as if they had lost. Election Day was wet, snowy, and nasty; balloting was only one-fourth of normal. They alibied on & on: loyal Negro Democrats weren't interested; Franklin Roosevelt himself was not on the ballot; New York's fiery Fiorello LaGuardia, telling his supporters after the election what he was careful not to say before, blamed his Party's weak choice. He described Bennet as "cultured, educated and experienced" and Torrens as a "Tammany wardheeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Elephant Ride in Harlem | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...more rugged spots-far in advance of the "country clubs" like Pearl Harbor, Noumea, Kodiak-movies are the only form of entertainment. The poorest show will draw a full house. Often 4,000 to 5,000 men will sit on wet ground, sometimes in pouring rain, through an entire feature-length picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Better Movies Overseas? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...farmers' lush income was not all due to price inflation. Much of it they had earned the hard way, by longer hours of sweat, toil-and some cause for tears. After a wet late spring that brought disastrous floods and killing frosts, they plowed and seeded from sunup to midnight. Some worked by moonlight; others -rigged up floodlights, or mounted battery-operated searchlights on their tractors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMS: Annual Report | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Small Troubles. Now A.A.C.S. stations cover the world, range in personnel from four to 150, in temperature from the sticky wet heat of the Solomons to the numbing cold of Greenland. One Greenland station recorded a wind velocity of 137 m.p.h. before the weather rig blew away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Global War, Global Network | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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