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...situation has political potentialities. Frustrated Canadian drinkers, full of wrath and woe, naturally blame the Government. Their term for the great parch: "Mackenzie King Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: WARTIME LIVING: The Great Parch | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Navy's Pride, Navy's Woe. Seabees are a rough & ready outfit, hardboiled, hard-driving ex-civilians who sneer at protocol and red tape and are always taking short cuts instead of "going through channels." They have had their tiffs with the always proper Navy. Stevedores, handling all sorts of supplies for the fighting forces, sometimes cut in on such items as new shoes, jackets, a case or two of Coke. Proud of the work they are doing, the Seabees have sometimes blown their horn too brassily for regular Navy ears. But they have proved both to Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Can do, Will Do - Did | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Everywhere she goes she lends her pretty ear to tales of woe, turns her pretty smile on generals and privates without distinction and gives her strong shoulder to be wept upon by all and sundry. Bill calls her 'the G.I. girl friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill & Bumpy | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...jolly lads from (the famous Platoon III) came out, decked in various and sundry manner--and such tales of woe they did tell-in their "Command " performance of "you Fellows Teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKER HELD BY NTS GROUP AT PUDDING | 6/18/1943 | See Source »

...President doesn't actually wince when Budgeteer Smith enters, but he well might. For the President loves good news and Harold Smith almost never brings any. Every other Administration visitor can occasionally pop in with cheerful tidings. But not Harold Smith: he brings a brief case of woe, problems, figures, trouble, which he and the President must face up to forthwith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General Manager | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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