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Manager of the plant will be the No. 1 U. S. powder maker of World War I: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. But fat with its expanding peacetime chemical business, and still smarting from the raking it took in 1934 in the Nye munitions investigation, Du Pont has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Memphis Powder Mill | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

She learned to walk again. She even learned to drive a car. She was determined to have a job, and she leased a shop in Hackensack, opened a beauty parlor, hired operators. There she stayed on the job six days a week, from 9 in the morning till 6 at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Heroine | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Meanwhile, as Canada fussed over last-minute details for Their Majesties' 26-day train tour of the Dominion (and five-day visit to the U. S.), the liner Empress of Australia, bearing their precious persons from England, groped through blinding fog, shied away from towering icebergs and treacherous, low...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Buntings and Icebergs | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Economy, however small, was to have been one accomplishment of this session, and several appropriation bills actually were shaved to establish the principle of shrinking the Budget. But last week the vote-hungry House again liberalized the pension laws for World Warriors and their dependents, at a cost of $18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Undone | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

In an editorial masterpiece, which used 35 of the 80 words on the simplified spelling list, the Tribune explained: "Now it's all over. We're saying good-by to simplified spelling. We hope that no hassocs will be shied in our direction as we make our way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hemloc Canceled | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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