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Beaufort is a peaceful town of some 3,000 population on the jagged North Carolina coast. Last year its serious unemployment was relieved by WPA with allotments of funds for a sewing project, building repair projects and a community centre with an auditorium, golf course and tennis court. Biggest problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Beaujort Boondoggle | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Smoke pours from long, jagged fissures or "chimneys" which have opened in the farm land of Perry and Hocking Counties, the home of 5,000 people. In places the 51-year-old fire has pierced above ground, burning buildings, destroying valuable timber, causing some deaths. Property values in the towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fire | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

When the Whites had finally won, Spain's young West Pointers were found to be not the half-starved "human scarecrows" the Madrid radio had been calling them, but adequately nourished and mostly wearing beards that had grown during the 71 days of the siege. Of 1,800 persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crumbling Republic | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Across a wrestling ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

Honor, Faith, God. These tremendous, slugging blows by Adolf Hitler were of a complicated nature, but with them he also provided sugar-cookies for the slugged. These he announced as German offers: 1) to make several kinds of peace pacts with virtually all European States, including an air pact in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bludgeons & Cookies | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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