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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the blast of warm air and rain which swept over New England on Wednesday has left in its wake skiing conditions which are predominantly poor, several centers, including Cannon Mt., Pinkham Notch, Waterville Valley, and Stowe, Vt., report fair conditions with a dusting of new snow over a breakable crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Conditions | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

...Vayo want to make sure that the art would not fall into Italy's or Germany's hands. Finally, Generalissimo Francisco Franco was implored not to bomb the roads over which the-treasures were being moved. The General's aviators, who have never hesitated to blast women and children, complied. Directors of the Paris Louvre and the London National Gallery accompanied the paintings on their way to final safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugee Art | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...medical men, 1,180 is an inconsiderable number. Yet a tremendous hue & cry has been raised by American physicians against the hospitality the U. S. has extended to foreign "competitors." Last week Medical Economics which reaches the office of almost every doctor in the U. S., issued a loud blast against "Refugees Unlimited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Refugee Physicians | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gulfstream Park | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Near New Berlin, the Illinois Conservation Department bombing crew set off their 13th rookery blast of the season. In a crow rookery a quarter-mile long, 180 specially designed dynamite bombs were exploded, killing an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 crows. Approximate number of crows killed this winter in Illinois' crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: War | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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