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...Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second-hand from eastern mills where they were not in use, would have to be torn down for rebuilding anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: 15,000,000 Tons More | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Instead of passing it, the House might just as well have torn up the tax bill and tossed the pieces away. When the bill reached the Senate last week, the Senate Finance Committee started tearing it up anyhow, writing it over from beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Scrap of Paper | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...from Lewisville, Ark., who testified that her family's Bible had been destroyed by fire in 1896 when she was eleven years old. She said she recalled 160 pictures and biographies in the Bible, described the photographs in detail, said that Wilson Strickland's picture had been torn out of the lower left-hand corner of page two after he had quarreled with his father. Opposing attorneys tried for two days to cross-question her into inconsistencies, had no luck at all. One woman claimed that Wilson Strickland was buried in her family graveyard in New Orleans beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Long Suit | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...even have charge of a floor. But the pull of England was strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macey | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Engineer Fritz Todt and General Georg Thomas. Todt's boys specialize in wrecking and saving: carrying off to Germany everything that can be carried, supervising and maintaining for German benefit everything that cannot. They are speedy and efficient at repairing and replacing damaged equipment and property in war-torn regions. Versatile, they are equally able to strip a country with the speed and efficiency of a horde of African army ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Spoil, Spoilers | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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