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...Corps's projected total at 8,066 (by mid-1941). Greatly disgruntled, the Senate wrote in an authorization of $100,000,000 for naval planes, specifically instructed the Army to spend $103,000,000 on aircraft which it had not asked for, and under its present setup cannot use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Great Illusion | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...made tempos picked. Therefore, where is bassist israel Crosby who played on these records? A John Hammond discovery who made some wonderful records with Krupa and Fietcher Henderson, he has dropped out of sight for the last couple of years. We can think of plenty of bands who could use his strong, easy playing...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/31/1940 | See Source »

...annual women's silk hose demand. A second plant, now building, will not swing into full production for a year. Discouraging, too, to hosiery makers was the possibility of nylon's becoming a war material. Last week the U. S. Army was testing the yarn for use in making parachutes, powder bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Synthetic Sale | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...furnace the first crucible saw steel ever cast in the U. S. From pictures of old Roman and Egyptian saws he designed, in 1874, the first skew-backed (curved) carpenter's handsaw, which is still Disston's No. 1 specialty and best seller-"The saw most carpenters use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: 100,000,000 Saws | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...energy of the British people," too little to "objective material reality." "Powerful separatist movements" in South Africa, even in Canada, are a virtual certainty once the war is over. The war, says Viton, will be a forcing-bed for rebellion in the Colonies: the industrialization of natives, the use of natives in new colonial posts, the return of native soldiers, the rise of a native, anti-imperialist middle class, all guarantee rebellion on an unprecedented scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The British (Cont'd) | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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