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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Franco's White planes had by no means disappeared from the skies. Choosing an early hour when Madrid's anti-aircraft guns were off their guard, three trimotored Whites zoomed suddenly over the Capital's southeast working-class district, and plunked bomb after bomb in the streets as women and children were thronging to the market and as hundreds of men had massed in the open for a workers' meeting. Before the frenzied citizens could hurry for shelter 52 of them were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Red Stand | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

About 3 p. m. came an infernal five minutes which seemed to Madrid citizens like hours. Out of low, heavy clouds which had concealed their approach, four big White planes thundered to bomb the slum district of Madrid while three small White pursuit ships strafed the streets with machine guns. Six defending pursuit planes were soon diving on the Whites and anti-aircraft guns spat up at them from Madrid, but all got safely away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Flight from Madrid | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lala Palooz | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders, a third the ignition systems and so on. Vehemently Lord Nuffield pointed out to Lord Swinton that under any such scheme an enemy bomb which destroyed, for example, the crankshaft factory, could break the chain of British aircraft engine manufacture and bring it to a standstill. On the other hand, if complete engines were made by each of ten plants, the bombing of one would leave the other nine still turning out engines. "Your whole shadow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Shadow Scheme | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator, goes to the Briey sector in 1917, when the secret machinations of the munitioneers are in full swing. Forbidden to bomb the mines, he understands the reason from the conversations of Zacharey & de Kruif, starts after the mines on his own, is shot down and dies behind the German lines. Madeleine marries Zacharey. who is decorated by three governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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