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Under the silent city, waiting for the bombers in the half-light of the world's largest dugout (estimated capacity: 30,000), hundreds of Chinese died. They died not of bombs but of suffocation, in mad frenzy, as they clawed and tore at each other to fight their way to fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Death in the Darkness | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...four pesos (80?), 1,000 subscribers in provincial Querétaro got so mad they lifted their receivers right off the hook-and left them off. Not till the rates came down again, said they, would they put back their receivers or pay their bills. Last week, local managers tore their hair trying to figure how to beat the strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Put Down, Shut Up | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

When the sun did not attack them, storms tore at their boat. For food they subsisted mostly on seaweed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAHAMAS: Sea Story | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...into action, Maverickos last week went to work again. With shouts of Arriba Maury Maverick! they rallied San Antonio's Mexicans for the runoff next week. And Maverick, fighting for his political life, appealed to his middle-class white supporters with attacks on Quin's Negro supporters, tore into Bellinger as "that black baboon" who would be more powerful than San Antonio's whites if Quin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arriba Maverick | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...hundred thousand unionists of the CTM cheered and marched in Mexico City, but there was more excitement in Veracruz, where three paraders tore down and burned the flag in front of the German Consulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Holiday | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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