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¶ Night-fishing equipment with a float which flashes a light when a fish bites.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Mrs. Dilling looked coldly at her codefendant, peppery Mrs. Lois de Lafayette ("T.N.T.") Washburn, who favored delighted photographers with a stiff-armed Nazi salute. Florid, convivial Edward James Smythe, onetime speaker at Bund and Ku Klux Klan rallies, held up proceedings for two days while FBI agents were sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Curtain Rise | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

The Pioneer. A 24-year-old Dalmatian sailor commanded the Partisans' only warship, the fishing smack Pioneer, whose eight men were armed with four rifles. The Dalmatian told of sighting an Italian coastal convoy one day-15 vessels, strung-out over 15 miles, with a minesweeper at each end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Country | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Roy Dunn, 57, a big (235 lb.), easygoing citizen of Pelican Rapids (pop. 1,560), is a longtime member of Minnesota's Republican Old Guard. In his home province of Otter Tail County he farms 240 acres and runs a $100,000 fishing resort he built mostly with his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: While the Cat's Away | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

In a sister-accord, Russia renewed for five years her fisheries pact with Japan. Here too Moscow was tough. It withdrew from Japanese use 24 fishing "lots," upped the rent 6%, banned Japanese fishermen from the east side of Kamchatka (facing Attu).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sobering Up in Sakhalin | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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