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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motors' strike (44 days in 1937), and gloomy Chrysler dealers were wondering if it would run as long as Tobacco Road. Adamant sat big Tough Guy Herman L. Weckler, 49, almost six feet, almost 200 pounds, Chrysler's formidable, nimble-minded operating vice president. Adamant too sat bigger Tough Guy Richard T. Frankensteen, 6-feet-1, 220 pounds, onetime University of Dayton tackle, aggressive, teddybear chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Turkey Talk | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...feel that soon even the Big Three will catch the Chicago disease, and either give up their amateurism or forget about big-time football. From Harvard's experience, there is no such "trend" in evidence. As a matter of fact, every Harvard game this fall has drawn a somewhat bigger crowd than the H.A.A. expected. Princeton may be having a lean year, but there is no widespread dissatisfaction among amateur football teams which could satisfy Nassau's prophecy of doom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOLA BLUES | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Adolf: "Oh, I'm not particular as to size, so long as I'm bigger than the British Empire and the French Empire and the Dutch Empire and Belgium and the Balkans all rolled into one. You see, 90,000,000 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...grow bigger Adolf breaks off and munches a piece of the globe labeled Poland. He wanders off. He comes to the house of the March Into, who is having substitute tea with the Mad Flatterer and the Doormat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...tremendous speeds by repeated electrical pushes. With his 85-ton cyclotron Lawrence and his numerous co-workers have created scores of artificially radioactive substances, including common salt, and have even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger machine, that will weigh 2,000 tons (TIME, Nov. 6). Dozens of cyclotrons are now in use all over the world, and many are in charge of physicists who got their first cyclotron training under Lawrence at Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cookies from Stockholm | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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