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...Drowning is slowest, most effective, most difficult. Mud and water forced down the well shaft under great pressure clog the subterranean oil channels, back the oil right into the rock formations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Wreck an Oil Well | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Little Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Rock Climb in the Blue Hills: under the auspices of the Harvard Outing Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 8/14/1942 | See Source »

Philip Francis Maguire, 37, is a genial, rock-jawed Irishman who went to Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll of Honor | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...minor outbreak of infantile paralysis (in Arkansas) may demonstrate something that doctors and parents everywhere very much want to know-how well the Kenny treatment of poliomyelitis works out in an epidemic. To Little Rock, where 25 children were down with polio, rushed a group of physiotherapists and nurses to whom the Australian nurse has been teaching her revolutionary exercise treatment (TIME, June 23, Dec. 15, 1941) in the Minneapolis General Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Treatment for Polio | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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