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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took us another half an hour to cover that last two miles before we came to a great wood-covered hill roughly shaped like a loaf of bread. We zigzagged our way up the side through barbed-wire entanglements, passages and trenches to the summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: In the Vosges | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...calling of a tax session of the legislature by Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson. A more lyrical O'Daniel promise was next impeached: His campaign song, Please Pass The Biscuits, Pappy, was bitterly recalled by a critic who dashed off a sarcastic rejoinder, Biscuit-Cutting Blues (tune: Shortenin' Bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Loves biscuit bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...quickest release... in dreaming of an existence which is rich, romantic, glamorous. But dreaming, though a pleasant occupation, is not altogether easy. . . . The making of a really good reverie demands considerable effort of energy and imagination. How," asks the author, ''can the American woman who buys her bread sliced and her peas shelled be expected to concoct her own reveries?" The best parts of the book report how Hollywood concocts them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Mack Trucks, Inc. (first in sales of heavy duty trucks): the new $1,145 Mack "Retailer," snoutless, shaped like a loaf of bread, 1½-ton pay load, for door-to-door work. The Mack line has 24 standard models at prices from $675 for 1-ton chassis to some $18,000 for 60-ton; others to order. Mack's boast: 72.9% of Mack trucks sold since 1929 are still in service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Trucks, A.D. 1940 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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