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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis (to postmasters): "Postal revenues . . . broke all records last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unrumpled Traveler | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...miles westward. The sea was calm. For a while the dories kept in sight of one another, but soon they spread apart, going their own ways as they do when fishing. There was no disorder; every man knew they must make land or sight a ship before thirst broke their morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 47 Men and a Corpse | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Another nine-year-old boy became "athletically inclined." When he reached high school, he became captain of the football and basketball teams. After almost seven years without attacks, he was taken out on a high-school party to celebrate a successful football season, and broke his training by gorging himself on pop, ice cream, and hot dogs. Within five days, in spite of his well-developed physique, he had three epileptic seizures. A return to his low-water diet ended his attacks, and he has had none since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise Cure | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...that, their functions are virtually unregulated by law. Their methods of auditing and analyzing a corporation's balance sheet are their own, the developments of over 400 years of practice. The U. S. public first realized that these methods were not always perfect when the McKesson & Robbins scandal broke last December. How was it possible, the average investor asked, for $18,000,000 in fictitious inventories to deceive seasoned accountants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACCOUNTING: After McKesson's | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Tokyo, where wartime substitute materials are widely used, A. Tanaka, would-be suicide, wrote to a rope manufacturer: "I had been hanging only a few seconds. Everything was swirling madly. I repented and then the rope broke-your rope. Many thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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