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...Admiralty man in London inquired last week whether the U. S. expects Great Britain to let any nation or group of nations neutralize an area extending as far as 1,000 miles out on the high seas. The London Times said out loud: "Any action taken by an American Navy to enforce [the Declaration] would . . . amount to an act of war and nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Nice Idea | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...great diamond-shaped area that begins around Marietta, at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and which, spreading westward, reaches north to around Red Wing, Minn., south to the Republican River in Kansas and west to the foothills of the Wild Cat Mountains in western Nebraska-throughout this region corn stood from eight to twelve feet high, and the estimate stood at 2,523,092,000 bushels-53% of the world's total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Chinese strategy was superb. As they fell back toward Changsha, leading the Japanese to believe that they were still following the same old no-frontal-attack theories, the Chinese destroyed every rail line, every road. The Japanese blithely advanced over this torn-up area until they were in the worst military position known to man: on a thin front without communications behind. That was when the Chinese struck. The Japanese had nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: New Wine | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Covering the area formerly occupied by Snell's Service Station as well as additional ground, a new Gulf gasoline station opens its doors today at the corner of Boylston and Elliot Streets, near the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gas Station Opens | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...birthdays over the air. Those he is unable to mention he sometimes calls personally on the telephone. After service like that kids will do anything, even to calling Mother out of the kitchen to hear what Uncle Don has to say about Wesson Oil. In WOR's area, some 25% of all radios are traditionally tuned to Uncle Don at 6 p. m. E. S. T. In the last nine years the Greenwich Savings Bank in Manhattan opened 35,000 Uncle Don accounts. In one winter season with Uncle Don, I. V. C. Vitamin Pearls, a capsuled vitamin, increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Snork, Punk | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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