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Big Eaters. The 100,000,000-year-old cockroach, which outlived the dinosaur and many other prehuman contemporaries, has evolved into a superbug of almost incredible staying power. Its hard, slippery body is hard to grasp; its flat torso permits it to squeeze into the smallest cracks; its nimble legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Insect Front | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Natives helped him. One supplied him with rice and other food in his hideaways. He had a small lens which he used as a sunglass to light fires. He learned to squeeze the oil of coconuts and use it for cooking fuel. He shaved once a week, hus banding a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

230 Wars in One. Lagging farthest behind in the new, speeded-up schedule are fast, armed transports to carry troops, weapons and supplies for invasions. Just as badly needed are tankers, not so much because of any slump in building (and certainly not because of losses to enemy action), but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Squeeze of Victory | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Three-Way Squeeze. The triple-shuttle operation, launched from England on June 21, hit oil installations on two legs of the route. On the way out the Fortresses (accompanied all the way by Mustang fighters) bombed the Ruhland oil plant south of Berlin, landed in Russia. Five days later they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Target: Oil | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

China was sick with inflation. Somehow a nation whose masses had always lived close to bare subsistence could endure the shortage of goods, the 360% rise in the cost of living. It could wear threadbare cotton garments more threadbare; it could do with a daily bowlful less of rice. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Another Year | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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