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Perennial battleground of the ancient world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Armageddon | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

The Court plainly indicated that the National Labor Relations Board had made the same mistake in cases against Ford Motor Co., Republic Steel and Inland Steel, several others. Anxious to stem the tide of criticism and court maneuver thus engendered, an NLRB spokesman last week disclosed that in these cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Court v. Court | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

¶ Discussed legislation to divorce marketing from other phases of the petroleum industry. This is supposed to be a New Deal objective as one result of the conviction, in Madison, Wis. four months ago, of 16 major oil companies and 30 of their officers of fixing the market price on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

"We used every maneuver known to aviation," reported Duelist Dickinson. "Although I am disgusted with many of the criminal acts of the Fascist Governments, I want to salute young Mussolini. He is not only a gentleman but a very good fighter." The duel lasted as long as the aviators'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Duel | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Ability. Carefully labeling his views as his own and not official War Department opinions, Major Phillips wrote in a vein contrary to most previous expert opinions on the war: "Franco has been almost constantly on the offensive and has been everywhere successful, excepting his failure to take Madrid early in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 1, 350 Sq. Mi. | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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