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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Abandoning his 33rd floor aerie (in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel) as well as his customary winter costume of long underwear, red golf socks and high-laced shoes, genial, ghostly, 84-year-old Hermit-Inventor Nikola Tesla (Tesla induction motor, Tesla pump, Tesla transformer, some 700 other patents) indulged an old enthusiasm for prize fighters, went down to dine with a fellow Croat, Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt returns to the capital tomorrow to pump new life into the rearmament drive, admitted by defense chieftains to be lagging behind expectations...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Always bad" were silver subsidies (90.2%), Guffey Coal Act (75.3%), gold policy (60.6%), taxation policies (67.7%), pump priming (61.7%), NRA (57.4%), AAA (53.6%), Wagner Labor Act (48.2%, a plurality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINIONS: Business Speaks | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Butter Stinketh," an original script, is scheduled for broadcast tonight as the first presentation of the year by the Radio Workshop. Written by Eli Goldston '42, it presents the story of the food riots during President Kirkland's administration, and includes the famed blowing up of the pump and the threatened blowing up of a privy, complete with sound effects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Lo, The Butter Stinketh" Will Be First of Radio Workshop Broadcasts | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...cells may be outnumbered. The linings of blood vessels become sticky, and white cells cling to them like flies to fly paper. As the red clumps grow larger, the liquid part of the blood turns thick and sludgy, and the heart is harder and harder put to it to pump against the blockade. When circulation stagnates, the body's oxygen is cut off. and finally the heart stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Malaria Movies | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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