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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Oct. 23, p. 14, ". . . [John Nance Garner's] Neon-blue eyes. . . ." If you will check the spectrum of Neon you will find it emits mostly orange and red wavelengths of light. Mercury or argon are the usual sources of blue light used in signs...
Another immediate result of the Reynaud-Simon performance was a bullish flurry on the Paris Bourse and the London Stock Exchange, where business-as-usual is the rule, and transactions now, though smaller than normal, are in larger volume than just before war broke...
Reilly. Meanwhile, the 220,000 Dutchmen in the East Indies live the life of Reilly. No white man is so poor he cannot afford at least two servants at salaries ranging around $8 a month, and the usual staff of a well-to-do household numbers six or seven. No white woman need lift her little finger around the house. U. S. films now arrive in Java, Sumatra and Borneo with little delay, and few are the Dutch Colonials who do not own a U. S.-made car. Tinned foods from home are always available, but the most famous East...
Japan's troops, who were able as usual to make an unresisted landing, pushed inland rapidly, advancing 30 miles in three days. The Chinese said they were dropping back to draw their enemy across the coastal plain into hills where they could be disastrously stopped. But this tactic would not prevent the Japanese from establishing air bases on the plain, from which they could easily and systematically bomb the two supply routes...
Berlin correspondents quickly disposed of wild reports that Friedrich Wilhelm had been "beheaded as a traitor"-he was seen going about the capital in his usual haunts -and it was presently rumored that the Fiihrer might decide to enthrone a likely candidate as Emperor and serve under this figurehead as Chancellor-as II Duce serves under Vittorio Emanuele III. Theory of this shift would be to save the faces of Allied statesmen who may want to deal with the Nazi regime but feel they cannot do so unless some disguise-however transparent-is arranged...