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...ahead in production of planes, build them with speed and without gadgets, "to fight in . . . [not] to live in." Since kudos goes to Nazi airmen, morale of air force is excellent. Göring's policy is to produce pilots in short order, then turn them loose and depend on the survival of the fittest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: War Machines | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...operating) sold it by United and Mesta Machine. But it has no way, except by U. S. purchase, of replacing any parts in this continuous mill or of building another. In theory, its new purchase from United will end some of these deficiencies. Actually Japan will still depend upon the U. S. for tailor-made ball bearings and high-grade forgings which are beyond Japanese imitative technology. In this country the Wooster plant could turn out $3,500,000 worth of machinery a year. Asked what its Japanese capacity would be. President Ladd snapped: "About half what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japanese Strip | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...appointment, may move some Senators to oppose the confirmation of his appointment. The fact that he was named to succeed Chairman Bill Douglas on SEC does not mean that he will automatically become its chairman. Legally, SEC elects its own chairman. How much opposition to his confirmation develops may depend on whether assurance is quietly given to the Senate that SEC will elect as chairman some one else, such as Commissioner Jerome Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Up Again Henderson | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Boston Red Sox. To camp followers this spring they showed such class that they are generally given an outside chance to beat the favorites to the wire-or at least give them a run for their money. How much of a threat they turn out to be will depend largely on a trio of rawboned rookies: Ted Williams, Jim Tabor and Woodie Rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: April Folly | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...this particular crook and his colleagues. Here is simply another example of an implied disapproval of tutoring as it now exists, which Harvard is unwilling to bring into the open. Even now the Records Office makes it hard for the schools to get the lists on which they depend. So the University is opposing in practice what it backs in theory--the freedom of the student to make his choice between good and evil and every other set of alternatives. Why not throw the course records wide open to the tutors and let them with much less effort on their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPEN BRIBERY | 4/22/1939 | See Source »

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