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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...higher surface noise and a little less high frequency, the records are almost as good as their Red Seal counterparts. From the standpoint of the record buyer, this is the best thing that has happened since electrical recording. It means good classical cheaply priced--a triumph of modern production method...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...itself and later developments which would make it profitable. Black Label and Red Seal don't seem compatible. Black Label can exist only at over doubled volume--which Victor can't handle with its present facilities. The film process can be adapted to handle itself and the old method--consequently where the woodpile and who's going...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...present system was initiated in 1920 following the War, when it was found that the method of training used by the army was woefully lacking in scope. 90,000 reserve officers were on the rolls in 1935, but the strength of the corps at that time was far below War Department mobilization plans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval, Military Science Men Students Form Basis of Army | 4/30/1940 | See Source »

...quadrumvirate-Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.-hammered out in the heat of the Munich crisis a U. S. foreign policy in the belief that war was coming. This policy was: 1) to prevent war if possible; 2) if war proved inevitable, to use every method short of war to assure victory for the democracies; 3) to recognize in their policy that "neutrals are parties at interest in a modern war, and particularly in the post-war settlement"; 4) to gain U. S. ends, political commitments in the western hemisphere, and possibly economic commitments toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The U. S. & the War | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Gesell believes that children are not only charming but startling, is firmly convinced that it is silly to try to measure them by intelligence tests. He has worked out an elaborate method of spying on them from behind a one-way-vision screen. In The First Five Years of Life he describes: 1) how a normal child grows; 2) how one normal child differs from another. Normal behavior at different ages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Baby Behavior | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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