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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nowadays is chemical absorption of oxygen in the soil-that is, oxidation or "rusting" of the Martian terrain. But the dark patches on the planet's surface grow heavier and more distinct in winter, change from blue-green in summer to chocolate brown in winter. These changes strongly suggest vegetation. The potent chemical compound called chlorophyll is present in all the green plants of Earth, but spectroscopic analysis of the Martian patches has failed to disclose chlorophyll there. However, chlorophyll is simply the efficient catalyst which terrestrial plants have developed to enable them to store energy from sunlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond Earth | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Private capitalists such as President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (Manhattan) and Board Chairman Frederick H. Ecker of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stepped before the committee to suggest, politely, that the Government has gone far enough with low-cost Housing in the rental field, since that is the field (as distinct from the home-owning field) into which large private capital seeking profit might go if encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Big Push | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...actual fighting, writes mainly of personalities, is most effective on the salty subject of his fellow officers. General Piccolomini, lecturing to his staff on Coordination of Intellects, proved by irrefutable logic that a semicircular excavation on a nearby mound was a machine-gun emplacement. An adjutant major ventured to suggest that the general was wrong. "Oh. What is it, then?" sneered the general. "It's a latrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alpine Fighters | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

COMMENTING ON YOUR UNJUST, GOOFIEST, UNGODLIEST ARTICLE I EVER READ . . . CRITICIZING OUR BELOVED GOVERNOR OF MICHIGAN, MAY I SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT YOURSELF IN A LARGE CLEAR MIRROR AND ASK THE QUESTION, WHO AM I WHO DARES TO OPENLY RIDICULE A GODFEARING, PRAYING MAN ? ONE OF YOUR SUBSCRIBERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...suggest that you peruse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Curtsies | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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