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...only damage I sustained was a hefty bruise on my right shoulder from hitting the tail as I jumped, and a bruise on my leg, and a torn trouser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...forced landing at East Boston Airport yesterday afternoon by the skillful flying of his instructress. Gertrude S. Meserve, 19. Brown, oue of Miss Meserve's ten Harvard students, was on a cross-country training flight into northern New England when the undercarriage was Smashed and a wheel torn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Instructress' Skill Saves Self, Student | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

This distribution is being taken care of by the peoples themselves and this distribution chiefly took place in the past 300 years at a time when our German people were domestically unconscious and torn apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Against The World: Hitler to his People | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Germany guaranteed the Church full freedom in its faith, property and organizations, in return for the Vatican's pledge that each bishop would "promise to honor the constitutional government and to cause the clergy of my diocese to honor it." With that escape clause, the Nazis have since torn all 33 articles of the Concordat into shreds, yelling "It's constitutional!" every time the Church objected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: German Martyrs | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...world's most expensive subway mile for mile. As an engineering feat, it is probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Lebensraum for the Straphanger | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

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