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* Other chief sources of purchased scrap: 1) scrap collected from industry (3,250,000 tons in the first half of 1942); 2) automobile graveyards (now largely exhausted but capable of yielding 500,000 tons a year indefinitely if 1,000,000 autos a year are scrapped); 3) "special-projects salvage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Call to Scrap | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

But Geologist Pratt is specific and scientific. Petroleum was formed (perhaps a billion years ago) from animal and plant remains in the shallow-water marine oozes when their sands and mud solidified into rock. Rocks of this kind comprise 40% of the earth's land surface. Almost all of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Omnipresent Oil | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Between Germany and domination of the great Eurasian land mass, the Red army still stood. But the valiant Russians were yielding step by step the greater part of their European soil. They were falling back ever closer to Asia. Each backward step brought the United Nations closer to facing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: If Russia Fell | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Siberian Bastion | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

How far did Congress represent India? Never had Congress entered mass action with so much of its own press against it. The Bombay Chronicle, Lahore Tribune and Madras Hindu assailed the Congress policy. The great Madras leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C.R."), who recently resigned from the Congress, was speaking against its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Toward Disaster? | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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