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...King's service that can be moved to the Pacific will be sent and there maintained in action by the people of the British Commonwealth and Empire in priorities for as many flaming years as are needed to make the Japanese in their turn submit or bite the dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Hard, Cold Truth | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...said Nelson, the consumer got more goods and services than he had ever had before-except for slap-happy 1941, when the war program took a far smaller share of total output than its 40% bite by the end of 1942. This year there is no more slack to take up in manpower and materials; civilian production will nosedive as war production rises. Overall per-capita consumption will probably be off 20% from last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: End of the Boom | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...into her house to keep them warm, thereby exhausted her pointer, Sandy, who stood with nose and tail extended and one forefoot raised for four hours. In Atlantic City, Clifford H. Lee got his German shepherd back from Dogs for Defense, which had given up trying to make Fritz bite the enemy. In Chicago, Joseph Bosnyak, whose wife liked cats, got a divorce after he had testified: "I ate with cats. I slept with cats. ... It was nothing for me to wake up ... and find a cat's tail around my neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

They draw only regular army pay. Their weapons: forked sticks and canvas bags, goggles and a snakebite outfit. The goggles are for protection against the deadly ringhals, which not only bites but spits venom six feet with tobacco-chewer's accuracy. Two of the men have been hit in the eye by ringhals (bathing the eyes with milk is a sure cure); all have been bitten at one time or another. They take lightly the threatening antics of the puff adder, but have plenty of respect for the swift black mamba, most dreaded of Af rican snakes, whose bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venom Patrol | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Niece of King George II, daughter of the late Alexander, who was fatally poisoned by a monkey bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: King Counseled | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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