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...when it found him. Last week it found him every time, and found him before he was able to get at his bombing objectives. For that, the few remaining veterans of A.V.G. and the youngsters of the Army Air Forces' Twenty-Third Pursuit Group could thank the wondrous Chinese air-raid warning system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF CHINA: One-Ball Jin Bao | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...wondrous sulfa drugs are now being used against animal diseases. Sulfanilamide cures fowl pneumonia and several eye infections, reports D. E. Lothamer of Louisville, Ohio; and sulfaguanidine cures intestinal coccidiosis, another common henyard plague, reports Professor Jerry R. Beach of the University of California. Such drugs are now a bit too costly for widespread use by poultrymen, notes Beach, but a large demand would cut the cost to a practical level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Chicken & the Egg | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...wondrous are the yarns they spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1942 | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Jack Unjaded. In Australia, before John Curtin became Prime Minister last year, his people used to call him "Jaded Jack." Behind his gold spectacles and his mild, professorial mug he was meek enough. His best friends said that for all his wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long labors for Australian labor, he lacked the guts and drive of a first-class leader. He was to Australian politics what William Edgar Borah, the late Thaddeus H. Caraway and other Senate gadflies were to the U.S.: a born oppositionist who talked a great government, but seemed to shy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Course of Empire | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...reminiscing Welshman's boyhood self (Huw Morgan) is played on the screen by a thirteen-year-old English boy named Roddy McDowall,* veteran of some 20 British films. His part-the wondrous day-by-day experiences that slowly make a boy a man-had to be played right to make the picture go. Thanks to his own considerable talent and the wise direction of John Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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