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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into thousands of British homes each month goes the creepy A. R. P. News, the "National Journal of Air-Raid Precautions." The magazine offers its readers such helpful articles as "Defense Against Fire," "Removing an Insensible Person (with rather astonishing ease)," "Decontamination of Materials," "The Romance of Cement," and "High Explosive Bombs and Their Effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Absolute Necessity | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...exchange speculators. Secretary Morgenthau announced that U. S. farmers and businessmen had "better start worrying seriously" if the Senate's action stood. Neither announcement improved the Senate's temper. The President returned to Washington from Hyde Park a day early to lead the money fight in person. Only two days remained before midnight June 30, when his money powers expired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Money at Midnight | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...pacifist is a person who, on religious or moral grounds, objects to all wars, defensive or offensive. A conscientious objector is one who reserves to himself the right to decide whether to support his country in a particular war. When the U. S. entered the World War, more than 64,000 citizens applied, on grounds of conscience, for exemption from combat service. But fewer than 4,000 went further, demanded exemption from noncombatant duty. Most of these were sent to farms and camps; 486 were sentenced to prison, 17 to death. (But no one was executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Pacifists | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...colorful foods. Yellow foods, such as butter, corn, carrots, egg yolks, are rich in vitamin A (essential for good eyesight). Greens are rich in minerals, and in vitamins A, B and C. With a variety of fresh, gently cooked vegetables, says the U. S. Public Health Service, no healthy person need worry about vitamin deficiency, or spend money on pills, tonics, "vitaminized" foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thought for Food | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Most powerful force which drives human beings, said Freud, is a primeval sex instinct, the libido. During childhood the libido is bound up with such experiences as eating, excreting and thumbsucking. In later years the libido may be transferred to another person (marriage), may remain grounded in childish sex play (perversion), or may overflow as artistic, literary, or musical creation (sublimation). In fact, said Freud, greatest source of creative work is the sex instinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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