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Gary, Ind., is essentially a steel city, its murky horizon is sliced jagged by towering smokestacks. An efficient Chamber of Commerce boasts to visitors that Gary has 515 acres of golf links, parks and playgrounds, a $1,000,000 community Church, a model public school plan. The visitor will listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: American Tragedies | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Last summer Father Hubbard. as he had done for three years prior, took four football players into Alaska for a long geological walk to the end of the Aleutian Islands. Their jaunt took them into the hearts of Aniakchak and Veniaminoff. There they pitched their tents, found in their subsequent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Boiling Alaska | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Professor Tsankoff mortally hates and fears secret societies. Across his forehead is a jagged white scar, received during his Prime Ministry when a Bolshevist bomb, intended to wipe out him and his entire cabinet, burst and killed 200 Sofia citizens. Yet his dearest friend, a General Protogeroff, was a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Imro & Umo | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Oberammergau lies in a valley of those Alps, a town of ornate chalets inhabited chiefly by woodcarvers who combine medieval craftsmanship with modern salesmanship, who ship their whittlings all over the world. Over the town looms the jagged Kofel peak; in the town a bearded newsboy, attired in plus fours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Oberammergau | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Lost & Found. The old steamer Fort St. James which the late Roald Amundsen used in the Arctic, is a Hudson Bay Company post in Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. To its frozen remoteness eight bearded, twitching men tottered. Their leader, Col. C. D. H. McAlpine, only after being warmed and fed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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