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...German succeeded north of Rostov, he might still have the power to crash down through the Caucasus into the Allies' last local source of oil, the fields of Iraq, Persia, Bahrein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Days That Are Dark | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...whole pellmell, damn-the-expense, U.S. war-production program collided in a hundred places at once this week with the steel shortage. The crash could be heard from Berlin to Tokyo. For the U.S., it was news calculated to humiliate the world's most production-proud nation more than a military defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Production Tripped Up | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...tail of his Stormovik shot away when he was hardly ten meters (32 ft.) off the ground. Nevertheless he landed well inside the Russian lines, with his hip and both sides of his face injured, and walked back to his camp. He arrived six days after the crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Dispatch from the Volga | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...late December, it was to be 120,000 tons, in January it was 400,000, in March 600,000, then 800,000. By June it was to be 1,000,000 tons. Letters of intent from Jesse to the trade fluttered down like ticker tape at a pre-crash Wall Street parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Die Is Cast | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Also helpful in accident prevention are the new elaborate "screening" tests given candidates at induction and preflight centers. A series of 21 physical, mental and mechanical examinations weed out a high percentage of men who would be apt to crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Crashes | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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