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...they held together at all under that kind of expansion. For 20 years Ordnance officers have been begging this manufacturer to develop a sight, that manufacturer to redesign a breech block, another for a recoil mechanism, with never enough money to back it up, and now all of a sudden ordnance is expected to have mass production. It just isn't in the wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparedness 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

German dive bombers pounded Tobruch day after day-even on days when the sudden heat made tanks so hot that they blistered skin at the touch, and when the southerly wind blasted men and machines with grating dust. German spying was particularly daring. Several Nazis were found in Tobruch in British military-police uniform, and two spies were said to have visited Tobruch's Army and Navy and Air Force Institute (canteen) un spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: Courage and the Weather | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...These sudden moves startled American churchmen. They suspected that the new church was united more by Government pressure than by spiritual guidance, feared that Japanese Christians, regulated and dominated by a totalitarian State, might apostasize. But, said Bishop Abe: "The Government has not interfered and has no intention of interfering with the doctrine of the church." Only State control is administrative enforcement of the 1940 Religious Bodies Law (which recognizes Christianity as an official Japanese religion along with Shintoism and Buddhism). All church executives must be Japanese subjects, and no native church worker can be supported by foreigners; but American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity in Japan | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...Ossipee earthquake, the center of disturbance was 21 miles below the surface, and the quake came as a result of a sudden break in the rock. The second shock at Lake Ossipee was probably due to a gigantic underground rebound from the first, Dr. Leet said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEET PROPOSES NEW FACTS ON EARTHQUAKES | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

...missionaries, but the time may be riper than they realize for a far broader acceptance of their faith. China is today the only great non-Christian State with a Christian head. The conversion of Constantine is not the only case where through political events Christianity has come into sudden power after long years of struggling growth. After the victory at Tolbiac 1,445 years ago, heathen Clovis and his army of 3,000 Franks were baptized in gratitude. Something not far different might occur in China. If anything should happen to bring the U.S. and Britain into active shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christianity in China | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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