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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Golden Gate Exposition instead of selling bonds collected $6,000,000 in "contributions" and the contributors have only an equity in any possible net profits. So the Exposition had as liabilities only its $4,900,000 of bank loans, debts to contractors etc., of which $686,000 has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Regilded Gate | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Creator of this startling masterpiece turned out to be a Missouri Negress, Flora Cornell Lewis. Born in Kansas, 36-year-old Mrs. Lewis has been painting since she was six, has never studied. Farm Life was done in a battered farmhouse near the little town of Marshall, Mo., where she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Primitive | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Since March, Arch Oboler has been writing, casting, directing, dabbling with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Sure as shooting, in a big league war, there would be an almighty jam around the dials of radios which might hear propaganda and news from the other side. Hedging Italy's borders, for example, are reported about 100 small, telegraphic transmitters, some of which have lately been suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battlefield | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

But Germany, too, has a wired wireless system under way, and adaptation of all People's Radios for wire transmission has already been made obligatory.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battlefield | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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