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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noël et L'Amour. In comparison to Germany last week pre-Christmas France was paradise. Oysters, caviar, foie gras, turkey, geese or chicken, wines and liquor were all abundant and Premier Edouard

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The why of all this the U. S. Weather Bureau explained last week. The U. S. in 1939 had two "extended droughts," one in the spring and an even worse one in the fall. (A fairly rainy summer saved most 1939 crops.) Reported was "the driest fall of record," a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Driest Fall | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In sweet shops, which in Germany at this time of year usually bulge with sugared dainties of all sorts, many a counter is piled with small gnarled apples.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

All papers in the Reich featured the Fuhrer's decision that, as a special Christmas dispensation, each German man may buy one necktie, each woman one pair of stockings, without the usual deduction from his or her annual clothing ration of "100 points"-ordinarily a necktie exhausts three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Many Dutch villages have their St. Nicholases and Black Peters, generally two popular local characters who know all the children. By prearrangement with parents, they leave toys for good children or threaten to leave a birch switch for bad as they go from house to house. Especially naughty moppets are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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