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These tropical islands in the South Seas motorized their artillery, partly motorized their infantry, improved their coastal batteries, equipped and trained a parachute corps, created fire-fighting brigades, barbed-wired their airfields, built air-raid shelters. They have two cruisers, four (possibly six) destroyers, twelve submarines, other small vessels, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Porcupine Nest | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Publisher John Sanner of Anamosa (Iowa) News got a wire from Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, offering him $236 to run a series of ads, part of B.B.D. & O.'s whirlwind enlistment campaign for the Navy. Publisher John, aged 10 and now in the fifth grade, wired back that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mistake | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

For the first time since the disastrous Roosevelt "purge" of 1938, the President had taken a bold and active hand in a State election. Lyndon Johnson, who first announced his candidacy from the steps of the White House, was backed three times during the campaign by letters and telegrams from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Close Thing | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Cobb was the first to blow up. "That So-and-So," he barked, "I could always lick him on a ball field and I can lick him on a golf course now." "Okay," Babe wired, "if you want to come here and get your brains knocked out, come on." Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cobb v. Ruth | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

The faster prices have risen, the faster has Leon brandished his only effective weapon over them-his jawbone. By last week he reminded even his friends of Hugh Johnson at the climax of NRA. Chrysler, Ford, Hudson, Nash, Studebaker had all announced price increases ranging from $10 to $53 a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Leon's Worst Week | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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