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...asleep under an anesthetic that might wear off at any moment. Latest anesthetist was Price Boss Leon Henderson, who argued that the heaviest burden of a sales tax would fall on "persons whose standard of living is already below safe levels." But, while no one wanted to wreak injury on the very lowest income group, most New Dealers now argued that a sales tax was perhaps the most powerfully effective way to cut down the big new bulk of inflationary purchasing power. Shelved for a month at least was the plan for enforced savings: for one thing, Congress wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men at Work | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

CHICAGO, Jan. 20 (U.P.)--Japan is sitting on a huge powder keg whose tremendous forces could wreak more destruction throughout the island empire than all the bombing planes in the world, according to Dr. Helmut Landsberg, University of Chicago seismologist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthquakes Menace Japan More Than Enemy Bombers | 1/21/1942 | See Source »

...finders with vastly improved machinery and technique "vectored" the Beaus close enough to enemy planes to see them and attack. The Havocs shot out across the Channel and hovered over German airfields; then when the Jerries came home and dropped flares for a landing the Havocs leaped in to wreak their name, catching their opponents at stalling speed and in ticklish confinement. While the King was watching, the reports began to come in. One shot down, one probably shot down, another certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Under the Full May Moon | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...reveal their incredible fibre. They have endured Puritanism, mercantilism, industrialism, sinking physically, among the nations of Europe, from the first grade to the third. But Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great Fire, and it now turns the worst rage that modern war can wreak into just another trial to be confronted. In confronting it, Londoners have rediscovered their chief racial faculty, once wild, now disciplined: a casual, bottomless courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 700-Year Newsreel | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...continuing progress of the entire national defense program"). Offhand, it did not look as if there were a spot where aggressive Mr. Johnson's talents would be of less use, or where his equal talent for getting in other people's hair would wreak greater havoc with the Defense program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Exit Johnson | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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