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Keep the Home Fires Burning. Many historians agree that Germany was not defeated militarily in World War I until her home front began to collapse; and that the internal collapse came because the Army tried to convert everything to military use. Russia's present military strength is credited to the Soviet ability to preserve a minimum but healthy civilian economy behind the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Home Front | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...experiment is a success, it may be that private owners will follow the example set by the Housing Office and convert unoccupied buildings into quarters for the families of the trainees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE BUYS HOME TO HOLD TRAINEES | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

...experiment is a success, it may be that private owners will follow the example set by the Housing Office and convert unoccupied buildings into quarters for the families of the trainees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE SEEKS TO SOLVE ROOMING PROBLEMS | 3/11/1943 | See Source »

...other merchants lying awake nights wondering how they too can stay in business as their stocks dwindle, the grocers' variety-store plans have an ominous ring. If food stores convert to the traditional general-store type of merchandise, consumers may concentrate their buying where they must go for their essential foods anyway. This may mean fewer shopping trips to druggists, dry goods and hardware stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retreat for Survival | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Trains & Tractors. One of the first tasks of German engineers was to repair and restore highways and bridges, to convert railways as far as the Dnieper to the narrower European gauge. Restoration of reconquered railways is bound to be a major problem for the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: What Hitler is Losing | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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