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The rest would have been "routine." The long screaming run down the airport as the plane labored to lift its heavy load of gasoline. The plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: One-Way Airline | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

After five weeks of siege, the defenders were still firm in their decision. Wherever the German wave seemed to lick too close, the Russians scooped it back a little. They used a new armored train as a battering ram for their attacks, and inside the city workers labored day and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Leningrad the Labyrinth | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

The General's dream of a road to Mexico City finally went glimmering, but the D.&R.G.W. became part of a famous system. And the branch which twisted up the sides of the Rio Grande canyon, skirted precipices 1,000 feet above the river, labored across the sagebrush acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW MEXICO: End of the Chili Line | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

Historically the Poles have no love for the Russians, have liked them even less since they divvied Poland up in 1939 with Russia's erstwhile ally Germany. For three weeks Ambassador Maisky and British officials labored in the interest of a united front against Hitler to make the Poles forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-POLAND: Unity at a Price | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

But to the last he had labored for his beloved Poland. Poland's Premier after World War I, he was now the figurehead President of its parliament in exile. On his 80th birthday, last November, he arrived in the U.S. from his villa in Switzerland. Since then, Paderewski spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Paderewski | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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