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...animal husbandry. Waring & Teller think this analysis is pure hogwash - the sort of thing that city fellers like Steinbeck and McWilliams would naturally fall for. But, they insist, to stay on the land and make a living from it, the small farmer must be come a highly proficient scientist as well as something of an artist. He must master the tricks of contour plowing and strip cropping. He must eschew the temptation to bet everything on a single cash crop, for that way, in years of overproduction, lies bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Small Farm | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...hearing, Nobel Scientist Millikan telephoned a protest statement to the committee attorney. When the attorney began to read it aloud, Gannon interrupted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquisition in Los Angeles | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...just a scientist in sadism, with a job to do. He tosses a loaf of bread into the dirt among a crowd of starving men, not for the fun of it, but in order that they shall dive for it, fight, divide and degrade themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...generation's advance in science has been packed into the last three years. One agency alone, the Army & Navy's Office of Scientific Research and Development, is spending $100,000,000 a year on research. The scientists' job is considered so crucial that for the first time in U.S. military history a civilian scientist, OSRD's Director Vannevar Bush, now sits on the Army & Navy's war councils. The full story of Bush's scientists cannot be told until after the war. But Science at War tells a good deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Progress Report, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...Methodist Church last week took the first step in a big project. From the Church's Manhattan headquarters went copies of a poster (see cut) painted by famed artist Howard Chandler Christy (Artist Christy is a Christian Scientist; his wife is a Methodist), which will eventually go up in the 42,000 U.S. Methodist churches. The poster summons members to participate in the Methodist Church's forthcoming Crusade for a New World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodist Crusade | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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