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On New Year's Day Australians put the final squeeze on Giropa Point, while Americans closed in on the Government Station area. That day saw the first break in Jap do-or-die morale: 23 surrendered without trying to betray their conquerors. Others, clutching logs and lifebelts, tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Movers & Moved | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Chief of Auto Ordnance food research is John Cornelius Donnelly, who has been dry-pressing since 1934, when he first applied the principle to coffee, freezing roasted beans while he squeezed them at 1,500-2,000 Ib. per sq. in. to produce a product that yields almost double the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Food Bullets | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

One oyster withstood a pull of three pounds (more than a starfish's estimated strength) for 40 hours, did not open until a 22-lb. pull was applied. Another oyster held on against 30 Ib. Several clams stood 25 Ib. before their shells, not their muscles, broke. One oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oysters Object | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

There the class of '43-600 men whose education was speeded up last February-was graduated six months ahead of schedule without caps & gowns, parades, ivy-planting (except in a pot) or other ceremony. Within a few weeks nearly all will be in active military service. At the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 43 in '42 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

The reason for this incongruous situation is as simple as it is ridiculous. Through its loans to farmers the Government has in effect cornered the wheat market. As a result the small supply of free wheat available to millers has soared to the highest price since 1937. But the selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Let Them Eat Cake | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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