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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French department stores reported Christmas sales about 40% below last year. They were doing a thriving trade, however, in everything wearable, drinkable or eatable that devoted French women thought their men at the front might like. L'Amour is important to morale, and the State made it possible last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In the modern cases, the possibility of producing fine books in large volume is demonstrated by the achievements of contemporary Russian, French, Italian, and German presses. Their editions were issued very cheaply, in tens or hundreds of thousands, but the calibre of printing and illustration is still high.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Collection Of Fine Printing Shown in Widener | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Not one leaf of flue-cured tobacco has sold this week in all North or South Carolina. Nor last week. Nor the week before. Tens of thousands of Carolina farmers could get no ready money. It was like the Midwest in drought time. Banks could not collect fertilizer loans or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: $40,000,000 Bail-Out | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Poles accused as "snipers" at the German Army were rounded up for even harsher treatment than the tens of thousands of Polish prisoners who were being shipped off constantly to work in Germany, mostly on farms but also in unskilled factory jobs where it would be difficult for them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Divide and Rule | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Wilford Cook Saeger '04, whose signature graced tens of thousands of Bursar's Cards, has resigned as Bursar because of ill health, after holding the position for twelve years. Saeger has been kept from his work in Lehman Hall since early in the summer because of illness.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilford Saeger Quits as Bursar; Murray Gives Up English Post | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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