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The diving signal came. Prien began spinning his controls. Air roared from opened ballast tank vents, water rushed in to take its place. On the control board-called "the Christmas tree" because of its numerous red and green lights-lights flashed, showing Prien that the air induction valves, which carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

As the rescue chamber came within 150 ft. of the surface on its final trip up, the lower cable fouled on its winch. For three hours and 45 minutes Lieutenant Naquin and seven men had to revise their calculations on the probability of death, while around them divers worked desperately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Star four is the previously mentioned Miss Fitzgerald, who will be backed by Jack Hill's band. The Smoker Committee has been diving in and out of every dance spot in the section trying to find a band good enough to back the notables present. Hill's outfit, from the...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

Vag hesitated, a little taken aback. The place where he found himself was, to say the least, surrealistic. In front of him was the crude semblance of an early nineteenth century drawing room with men and women strewn about in various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

Schack August Steenberg Krogh won a Nobel Prize in 1920 for his studies on the mechanism of blood supply to muscles, showing that a muscle's capillaries work in squads or shifts, most of them remaining closed when the muscle is resting. His great work on respiration, published in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Respirationist | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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