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For the Navy, convicts make submarine nets; make or recondition buoys; repair hundreds of shoes; do laundry. They are making 300,000 Navy pillowcases, 40,000 mattress covers, have turned out 10,000 Navy cafeteria trays and only await metal to turn out 100,000. The prison's furniture...
But by Friday Dewey was half forgotten as the full magnitude of the Anglo-American victory in Egypt was revealed. So 800,000 Dewey covers followed the Australian to the old paper mill; and we ordered a new set of covers on double time-picturing Admiral Harwood, the British Naval...
I think this is pretty nearly the most hectic week we have had yet on our covers, but these days particularly we have to be prepared for just such kaleidoscopic changes in the news; and so one of the biggest continuing jobs our picture department has to meet is to...
Painting a TIME cover is a good week's work for one of our artists; the four-color engravings take five to six days more; making press plates takes another day. So having a cover ready to start printing at an hour's notice means not only sighting...
Right now we have 52 such covers all electrotyped "8 up." Half of them will have to be melted down unused, of course. For example, last month you saw Lord Gort on TIME'S cover as Governor of Malta. Gort's portrait was first done many weeks ago...