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No one had yet told, out loud, the real reason why General McNaughton had resigned his overseas command. But last week in his small Ottawa apartment, Andy McNaughton talked. He had resigned his command, he said, because he had wanted to keep his Army, stationed in Britain, intact. The National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McNaughton Talks | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

It was not all blood and fireworks from Moscow last week. One big piece of news was that Nikolay Tsitsin, the Soviet Union's 46-year-old Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mnogolefnia Pshenifza? | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Once life was simple for the hardy 'Cliffe-dweller who ventured forth to the yard. No smoking on the steps of Widener was the order of the Day, every day, and that was that. But now that the old order has completely yielding, sterner measures seem appropriate as the "combined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Style Revamped for 'Cliffe As Yard Etiquette Tightens | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

German troops in World War II have an almost perfect record of never yielding territory without a bitter fight. If circumstances now compelled them to give up this policy, the probability was that they would try to pull back in Poland and stabilize a new Eastern Front, meanwhile trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Gloom in the Reich | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

At first, penicillin was produced only in small flasks (relatively easy to protect against contamination) from a strain of the mold, Penicillium notatum. In Dr. Coghill's laboratory, mycologists developed new, heavier-yielding strains. They also found that the mold's growth could be greatly speeded in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Penicillin Production | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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