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Every German knows that Captain Göring is an authentic ace hero of the Imperial air force, received Germany's grotesquely French-named Ordre Pour Le Mérite from Kaiser Wilhelm. After Allied airmen shot down the late great Baron von Richthofen he became commander of the Richthofen Escadrille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sub-Dictator | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...between railroads and shippers; also transferring freight from railroad to railroad, also distributing coal to office buildings which took it up to their furnaces by conveyors; also collecting ashes. Frequently in making excavations for new buildings it was found convenient simply to open a hole into the tunnels and pour the earth removed down into tunnel cars. Many acres of land, including much of that where the Century of Progress Exposition now stands, were "made" by ashes and earth carted off for disposal by the tunnel freight system and dumped along the lake front. Despite all this the tunnel system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bowels of Chicago | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

...American tennis titan, Tilden, and thus brought to France the Davis Cup. There it has remained despite the fact that in Shields, Lott, Allison, Van Ryn, and Vines, America has the greatest collection of tennis players alive and most probably the greatest individual player. Yet France continues to pour water on her already soggy courts and Champagne into the historic bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY NOT WIN? | 5/26/1933 | See Source »

...bank in the fourth city of the land one morning last week. It looked like a run. But practically every bank in the city had been shut tight for six long weeks and this crowd was waiting for the doors to open, not to demand their money but to pour checks & cash into National Bank of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Open Detroit | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...Schacht, then President of the Reichsbank and famed for his success in stabilizing the German mark in 1924 at its present gold value, predicted catastrophe if U. S. and other foreign loans continued to pour into Germany, did what he could (not much) to stem the flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Schacht Back! | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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