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...hanging title of 'god,' has dropped the plural speech, started speaking of himself in the third person singular. Those of his people rejoice who feared lest his insatiable appetite for wealth and power might have gobbled even larger sections of northern Syria and made him a frightful monster with a sway beyond his capacity of understanding. ... If Allah is kind and gives him strength to ride out his illnesses, he might even worm his way into the presidency of an independent sovereign Syria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God into Deputy | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

This policy, once laudable, has long since become a Frankenstein's monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Meat Is on the Way | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Army had its 1,000th movie theater opened last fortnight-at Camp Hood, Tex. To celebrate the event, Army Motion Picture Service* Director R. B. Murray was given a surprise party with a monster ceremonial cake in Washington, D.C.'s Tower Building lobby. During World War I, soldier movies were provided by the War Department and welfare agencies. When the AMPS was founded in 1921 it had only "a woefully small sum of money ... a few buildings which were theaters in name only." Today it operates in all 48 states plus Alaska, Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, Hawaii, Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: Second Chain | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

Crucial equipment has now been diverted to Reynolds. In their rambling redbrick plant last week, workmen were frantically preparing the way for an enormous 5,000-ton hydraulic press, one of the five largest in the world, originally destined for Douglas Aircraft. By late this month the monster will be working around the clock for a score of planemakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rosy Reynolds | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...funeral train arrived in Chicago, George Pullman found his opportunity. Mrs. Lincoln was on that train and she wanted to go through to Springfield that night. George Pullman's offer of his car was accepted. Station platforms and bridge railings were ripped apart so that the broad-beamed monster could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pullman in Court | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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