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Rides. The Midway has a full Coney-Island quota of thrill machines-whizzing bobsled rides, stratoships, turtle chases, roller coasters. Dwarfing them all is Life Savers' 250-foot Parachute Jump. Using hoist cables, the Jump carries couples seated under big umbrellas to the top in 42 seconds, shoots them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

* After his maternal grandfather's nephew, Matthew Fontaine Maury, a commander in the Confederate Navy, whose oceanographic researches led to the laying of transatlantic cables.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Unbrcmded Bullfrog | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

The fire first broke out in the bakery. Before firemen could chop down the door, it was licking up through the gleaming white superstructure. Other blazes had mysteriously broken out from her cutwater to her overhanging stern. While wharf crews took off her cargo, including ten U. S. warplanes not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jinx | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

A man stood in a large hall in Moscow one night last week and spoke with the dry air of a professor giving a lecture he has delivered several times before. He talked in a drowsy monotone, occasionally taking long pauses to sip mineral water. No foreign newspapermen were present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Drivel! | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

*Express correspondents sometimes slip hot news items past foreign censors by addressing their cables to "lack Glass House, London."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

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