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Historic Irony. In 1750 this God-obsessed nation suffered one of history's supreme ironies: its conquest was begun by the world's No. 1 modern industrial power - Britain. For a century India supplied a large part of the capital wherewith Britain financed its industrial expansion and presently formed a big part of the market to which Britain sold its manufactures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Soldier of Peace | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

...Chinese consider jeep girls a national disgrace. One newspaper suggested that they be given medals for bringing in U.S. gold wherewith to balance the national budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jeep Girls | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

With no such political club wherewith to threaten the President, the non-Communist unions declined in prestige and power. The Communist unions expanded until now they control 400,000 tightly organized workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Palace of Labor | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...Marriages, Muck. One of White's helpers lugged along a pot of honey, wherewith to soothe the voluble candidate's rasped throat. White reminded the voters that Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley is vaguely related to His Lordship. Lord Hartington countered with the statement that White had himself actually been a follower of Mosley (when Sir Oswald was a Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tories & Circuses | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...company achieved many seemingly insurmountable tasks and production was much greater than calculated. I definitely know that his extreme effort was made . . . so that the men in the Army would have sufficient weapons wherewith to fight. He envied me my commission in the Army Reserve and the opportunity for what he considered a more direct effort to a successful conclusion of the conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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