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We sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: FLIGHT TO THE RISING SUN | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

In 1904 nobody died of the plague, so it was pronounced gone for good. California breathed a sigh of relief and tried to forget the plague. But after the earthquake of 1906, plague again haunted the ruined city: 160 known cases appeared in 1907 (others are believed to have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Black Death Is Here | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

The steaming, grind-haunted reading room of Boylston, which has handed out books for years to History and Government students, will close for the second session, causing the industrious to seek elsewhere in their thirst for knowledge and A's.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston Hall Closes Reading Room Today | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Nazi ministers, ranting against "the worst winter in 150 years," issuing new decrees and rushing in thousands of farm laborers from conquered countries, showed that Germany well remembered when hunger struck behind the lines in 1918. That one ghastly year of starvation and the following years of inflation left German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: The Master Race | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Typical censorship ineptitudes that haunted reporters:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship Fantasia | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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