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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A few bold patients taught themselves to speak by swallowing air and belching it out in grunts, but until Temple University's Dr. Nathaniel Martin Levin built belch-talk into a system, most larynxless men could never hope to speak again. During the past three years, brief, brisk Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Belch-Talk | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Forced to import some 70,000,000 hides (15% of its cattle hides, 25% of its calf, 50% of its sheep, all of its goat skins) a year, the industry has seen hide prices jump 10 to 30% since the advent of World War II. But shoe prices are only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Shoes Up | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

But the war did not start. Last week, in a paneled room off Independence Square, the directors of Curtis sat down before President Fuller to consider the Plan again. All, including brisk, slender Mary Curtis Bok and her ruddy-cheeked son, Gary Bok, agreed they wanted no Plan that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Philadelphia Plan | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Harbert, Mich., is a crossroads town about 60 miles east of Chicago across the lake. To get there you have to drive through the gritty desolation of South Chicago, through Gary, where in autumn the blast furnaces at night make a glowering sheet lightning, through the smoke of Michigan City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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