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...Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest that "he who has reason on his side need not speak in a loud voice." Workmen completed carving a 3,200-ft. runway from the solid rock of Chungking's mountains to accommodate Willkie's four-motored bomber. The Chiangs visited the garden house set aside for their guest. The Missimo saw that it was properly decorated with new silk draperies, American daisies, ancient paintings and priceless porcelain ware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: He Who Has Reason | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Opening its first week with a long list of feature attractions the Crimson Network will offer tonight and tomorrow night interviews with Robert K. Knapp, teaching fellow in Psychology, Dick Harlow, coach of Varsity football, and Vern Miller, the Crimson Rock of Gibraltar as left tackle on last year's team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNAPP TO TALK OF FIGHT ON RUMOR | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

...Catholics do have a representative though no machine tool, squarejawed, curly-haired New-Dealing Congressman Joseph Edward Casey, who won with the Administration's backing. In November he will face another blue-blooded Republican-the present Senator, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., handsome grandson and namesake of the famous rock-ribbed politico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Blue Bloods v. Blue | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...flowers and white streamers painted on the sky by planes and bursting ack-ack, the mortal brilliance of blood-Technicolor vindicates the remark made about it at its birth a decade ago that "Now Hollywood is ready to film the Last Judgment." The film jumps crazily when the bombs rock the Hand; and the camera shifts again & again to the faces of two young Marines firing an anti-aircraft gun-not in fear, not in bloodthirst, but only intently, the way an outfielder watches a fly ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Essentials of the complicated new process for extracting the vanadium: the phosphate rock is dissolved in sulfuric acid; then nitric acid is added to precipitate the vanadium in powder, then cake form. This will be marketed to alloy-steel makers as vanadium pentoxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vanadium from Idaho | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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