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Last week, as Nebraska and Illinois edged up to their April 9 Presidential preferential primaries, the question Democrats pondered was not who would win, but how much he would win by. "Who" in both States was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Republicans had a wider choice of worries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Nebraska and Illinois Primaries | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...other Polish tracks in Soviet hands have been converted to the wider Russian gauge. But Moscow agreed last Sept. 3 to leave the 191-mile Sniatyn-Przemysl line in standard European gauge. Over them were to have rolled five 60-car trains each day each way to haul goods between Germany and Rumania. But they were far behind schedule; as of Feb. 19, less than 700 cars had gone each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Oiling the War | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Give him wider powers in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Current affairs Test | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...prelude to the following three, and some participation in general College affairs is necessary for a clear perspective and adequate preparation for upperclass years. And moreover, Freshman institutions, under the annual impact of new incumbents, can never hope to attain the solidity and continuity of some of the wider College organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1943 GOES TO PRESS | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...Victor Emanuel. president of both ATCO and Aviation Corp. at around $50,000 a year. A flier in the U. S. Naval Air Service until 1918, Cornell-man Emanuel took over his father's utility business, made it into National Electric Power Co. in 1923, spread it farther & wider through the Middle West, sold out to Insull in 1926. In 1929 he returned to the power business by buying into the Byllesby system's Standard Power & Light. An associate in this foray was famed International Banker Albert Loewenstein, who (Emanuel intimated before the TNEC last month) was readying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLDING COMPANIES: Bankers' Banyan | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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