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Diaper Dilemma. From coast to coast U.S. diaper services (which supply, collect and wash diapers) were having trouble keeping up services. Numbers of prospective customers are up. Curtailed are diapers, laundresses, plus tires, oil and manpower for the trucks, some of whose horns play Rock-a-Bye Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patterns | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Morize, himself, was optimistic about these operations, even though he realized that the terrain in the battle-grounds of Tunisia is disadvantageous to offensive warfare because of its natural fortifications of desert rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Morize Analyzes African Campaign | 11/24/1942 | See Source »

...have lived and worked in the mountains, such as rock climbers, trappers, packers, guides, and prospectors, are preferred. Good skiers even without extensive mountaineering experience, if they are found physically fit for rigorous winter and mountain training, will be acceptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENLISTMENTS IN MOUNTAIN TROOPS OPEN | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...money will be used to blast new channels for the Seine River as a preliminary to draining Steep Rock Lake. Most of its 125 billion gallons of water will then be pumped out, its bottom stripped for open-pit mining. The Canadian Government has already appropriated some $5,000,000 for the erection of power lines and the financing of a railroad spur to lead from Steep Rock to Atikokan, which has rail connections with Lake Superior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Mesabi | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...from Rockefeller. Bethlehem has struck down into South America. Now, if Canada comes in, Big Steel's control of reserves-and perhaps its pocketbook-will be further affected. But for the U.S. economy as a whole, for the first time facing possible exhaustion of its finest ores, Steep Rock is still a net gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Little Mesabi | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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