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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Highest point in the high jinks was a Gone With the Wind costume ball night before the premiere, attended by 6,000 celebrants, movie stars and executives galore, Governors of five former Confederate States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...this fund, the subsidy was cut in half, midnight, Dec. 5. A few days later, it was cut to 2/5?, again last week to 1/5?. Anxious to share in the Government subsidy before it was all gone, exporters rushed into the market and bid cotton up 1? to 10.55?, highest in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Mobilized at the beginning of the war, French Novelist Philippe Heriat found himself on duty guarding the Goncourt subway station in Paris. Fortnight ago, the name took on a new meaning for Novelist Heriat. He won the Goncourt Prize (5,000 francs), France's highest annual award for fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Arthur Kober, refer to a "floundered" submarine, speaks from the photographic heart of what his time and environment have made him, and is incapable of going wrong. Even such a wowser as: "Whatever else North Carolinians stand for or do not stand for, immorality by a man in the highest place in an insane asylum or even the suspicion of it brings indignation," is better than a mere laugh; it is, like the whole of the book, as genuine as a thumbprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Bowl at El Paso-Arizona State College of Tempe, Border Conference champion and the Southwest's highest-scoring team (212 points) v. Catholic University of America (Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Roles for Bowls | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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