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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sky Soldiers. Planes are no good without good men. To train its flying men, U. S. Army Air Corps has invested $16,833,733.50 in Randolph Field at San Antonio, Tex. On Randolph's 1,900-acre main field and six auxiliary fields, overworked instructors are currently schooling the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Soldiers in the Sky | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Last week Science Service reported that hydroponics would soon get under way at Wake Island, the tiny speck of land in mid-ocean which Pan American Airways uses as a way station for its trans-Pacific Clippers. For Wake Island's barren half acre, hydroponics is a natural. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydroponics to Wake | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Compared to the much-postponed Paris Exposition of last year, the Glasgow fair set a record by being 98% ready on opening day. By week's end well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOTLAND: Symbol of Unity | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the stockmarket was falling faster than ever before. Dick Whitney got loans on his wife's securities, on those of the Yacht Club. He cadged loans as small as $15,000 from some Wall Street acquaintances, as big as $100,000 from others. He tried to peg Distilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sorely Mistaken | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge sold The Beeches, the $39,000 eight-acre Northampton, Mass, estate on which Calvin Coolidge died in January 1933 to a local lumber dealer for a reputed $10,000. Mrs. Coolidge is building herself a new house in Northampton, now spends her winters in Columbus, N...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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