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...lives? We do not. . . . These crowds of people . . . were symptoms of a fatal frame of mind. Their peril and their fate were at the back of that mind. Custom and habit were at the front of it. . . . If the cause of the shut down is lack of raw materials, then a sad situation exists. If the cause is 'holiday is as usual,' then a scandalous situation exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill and Bevin under Fire | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...fast as one coat of dye dries, another is applied, until the patient looks as though he were covered with a light, flexible coat of purple leather. Then he is kept at a temperature of around 85° F. The dye protects the raw flesh, and kills all bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dye for Burns | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...after the President's speech, in a slick little four-way play, a rigid export control was slapped down on Philippine trade. The President signed an act curbing Japanese access to Philippine raw materials. By prearrangement President Manuel Quezon immediately signed a proclamation implementing the new license system. Then High Commissioner Francis Bowes Sayre, almost in the same breath, announced that the act was in effect at once under his supervision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Realism in the Far East | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Another time there was the problem of the exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mouths South | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Raw Cotton__Wool_____Silk____Rayon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viscose Unveiled | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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