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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, talked at Yale last year, only 268 undergraduates turned out to hear him. But last week Comrade Browder had what pressagents know as "a buildup." Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth had barred him. New Haven American Legionnaires had bellowed at tolerant Yale President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Disadvantages of U. S. music films at present: 1) Their fidelity is poorer than that of the best discs; 2) the mechanism which plays them makes a noise; 3) high price of film makes film recordings four to eight times as expensive as phonograph discs. A more important obstacle: a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music on Film | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile, all was relatively quiet on a more important financial front established by Cyrus Eaton's letter. In addition to proposing public bids on the stock issue, he had also proposed that he and associates (including big Halsey Stuart & Co.) be allowed to bid on Consumers' $28,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week the little red-brick city of York, Pa. (pop. 55,254) tingled with anticipation of Christmas. Under the evergreen trees and colored lights festooning Continental Square (the itinerant Continental Congress met in York while Washington was at Valley Forge 162 winters ago), York's people thronged the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

> Among all of York's prosperous, loose-pocket citizenry, few were in more of a holiday mood than farmers from outlying Biglerville. Reason: Biglerville calls itself "AppleSauce Capital of the U. S." and the U. S. Navy had just placed an order there for several hundred tons of it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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