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...discreet indiscretions, which so delight the Prime Minister: "Not only German U-boats but German battle cruisers have crossed to the American side of the Atlantic and have already sunk some of our independently routed ships not sailing in convoy. They have sunk ships as far west as the 42nd meridian of longitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Conflict in Three Dimensions | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Features of the new line include doorless telephone booths soundproofed to keep out the roar of trains, promenades in & out of the elaborate 34th Street station by which one can walk all the way to 42nd Street. Proud but not satisfied is the city's Board of Transportation. Included in plans for the far future : an East Side subway to replace the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevateds, a subway under Central Park, four new tunnels under the East River and one to Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Lebensraum for the Straphanger | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

When the returns were in last week, Mr. Pommer was back for his 42nd year, now as senior councilman. Keystone of his winning campaign was his philosophy: "I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Human Domino | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Chanin Building on nearby Lexington Avenue, a lawyer named Arthur Knox was listening to a visitor in his 42nd-floor office. Hard-of-hearing, Mr. Knox was wearing an electrical earphone. All of a sudden he began to hear a description of ice-skating at the World's Fair's Sun Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Butting In | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...call the Legislature into special session to restore the $5,300,000 it had pared from State aid to the city's schools. Meanwhile 1,500 teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted: "Republicans promised to protect our schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ha! Ha! Ha! | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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