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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Power. The public development of hydroelectric power. "From the standpoint of the Treasury, the records of the great public power projects at Boulder . . .and at Bonneville . . . are reassuring. Both are liquidating their commitments to the Government. . . . Where irreconcilable conflicts arise . . . private holdings should not be confiscated, and we now have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Iron Road | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

The news of the worst crash in the history of U. S. aviation ended 17 months of safe operation. It stunned Washington. It had political repercussions: because among the dead was Minnesota's 62-year-old Farmer-Labor Senator Ernest Lundeen, whose successor will be named by Republican Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death in the Blue Ridge | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

By Night. Chief new development of the Battle of Britain's fourth active week was the institution of regular night raids on the two warring capitals, London and Berlin. The British had expected this. The Germans had not. Sharp was the surprise of Berliners, who had been told for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of Britain | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

These farmers hate what the Japanese have done to their historic city. Ten years ago there were some 2,000 Japanese in Peking; now there are 60,000. They run everything. Behind every Chinese shopkeeper stands a breath-sipping Japanese "adviser." By squeeze and by theft the Japanese have drained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: No Northern Peace | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Heredity & Environment. There is no evidence that any racial group or social class has more native intelligence than any other. There are more variations in heredity among individuals of a group than among any social or racial groups. Children tend to be like their parents in hereditary capacity; if their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eugenics for Democracy | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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