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Dates: during 1930-1939
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An athletic plant of the first magnitude will be open to incoming Freshmen this fall in Harvard's 60 acre establishment, comprising 21 competently coached sports.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

In 1867 Alaska was called "Seward's Folly" and "The Ice-Box of the North" because Secretary of State William Henry Seward bought the land from Russia for $7,200,000 (7? per acre) and everyone knew it was a wasteland of ice and snow, inhabited only by wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

In the flying business a successful forced landing is one you can walk away from. In 1932 big Detroit Aircraft Corp. made a landing that was distinctly not successful. No investor aboard walked away with his pocketbook intact. One of Detroit Aircraft's subsidiaries was Lockheed Aircraft, absorbed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Net & Gross | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

U. S. farmers outside the South were far from unemployed. Food prices rose even higher than the prices of industrial goods. As more and more wheat lands went out of production in Europe, wheat reached a dizzy $2.33 a bushel, and U. S. farmers borrowed heavily to increase their acreage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

The University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Flashing Pioneers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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