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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that General Motors' president had presented Princess Ingrid of Denmark with a pair of synthetic silk stockings. Since the Japanese sacked Nanking in 1937, I have worn no silk at all-and the substituted lisle & rayon hosiery are hateful to me. Those synthetic silk stockings sound like the answer to a maiden's prayer. Are they on the market as yet? If so, where, please? If not-who is making them? Surely not General Motors? Whoever is making them can probably use another experimenter to test their wearability as a new product-so if you can give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Stronger-than-usual British and French protests were lodged at Tokyo's Foreign Office. Embarrassed more than angered were the Germans, associates of Japan in the anti-Comintern Pact, but they also protested. While by week's end the Japanese had given no official answer, her Navy spokesman at Shanghai announced that Japan would search for "military supplies" any ship operating within 200 miles of the Chinese coast. The spokesman added: "It is not a question of rights, but of what the Japanese Naval authorities demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Stop and Search | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Name Three, a quiz show based on bank night, is a Monday night MBS half-hour sponsored by Dunhill Cigarettes. Candidates picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...have governed a small section of the Settlement as their own since the war and who have two seats of the 14 on the Settlement's Municipal Council, retire from their section of the International Settlement altogether. Britain soon followed suit, France was expected to send a similar answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Safe Deposit Vault | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...answer was the new 167, a sleek, mid-wing job. Most expensive of Martin's war babies, the first one cost $882,000 before its tests were completed. Last January, while Douglas was under scrutiny in the Senate for showing its new attack bomber to France before the U. S. had a crack at it-by and with the consent of President Roosevelt-Martin calmly went ahead with his order of 1675 for France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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