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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Arthur E. La Porte, commanding) was readied at its Port Washington, L. I. base to take off for Lisbon and Marseille via the Azores, on its first regular passenger flight (44 hours).* It was just 20 years to the month since Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic hop. In the seat once reserved for well-loved Will Rogers sat W. J. Eck, assistant vice president of Southern Railway, an engineer whose hobbies are photography and globe-flying and whose name was first of some 300 first-flight applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Want To Be First | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...free-wheeling threat to Singapore, French Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies. From 1935 to 1937 Japan was useful to the blackmail schemes of the Rome-Berlin dictators. After the war began, with a claimed 1,000,000 of her soldiers soaked up by the immensity of the yellow-brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Eighth Route Army harries the invader by guerrilla fighting throughout Shansi and Southern Hopei, and a "People's Self-Defense Army" of 50,000 mobile guerrilla units operates in central Hopei. By day a Chinese peasant, brown as the earth he tills, may placidly hoe his rows; by night he may be part of a guerrilla band that is chivying Japanese sentries; next day, when the Japanese start reprisals, he will be back on his acre, his gun and soldier's kit buried, a blank look on his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: ASIA - Chiang's War | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Brenda Putnam learned to sculp at the National Cathedral School in Washington and later under James Earle Fraser, Libéro Andreotti and Alexander Archipenko. Brown-eyed, dark-banged, slight and lively, she has worked and taught for years in a roomy studio on Manhattan's West 22nd Street. Summers, she and her father, Herbert Putnam, knock around in a sloop at North Haven, Me. Most of the last three years she has devoted to her book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brenda's Book | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Early last June Freud went to England "for peace," joined his son Architect Ernst. With him went another son, Lawyer Martin, and his gentle, brown-eyed daughter Anna, a practicing psychoanalyst. In a comfortable London house near Regent's Park, filled with his Greek and Egyptian treasures, Freud answers letters, continues his writing, even treats a few old patients. Every Sunday evening he settles down in the parlor, coddles his five young grandchildren, enjoys a lively card game called tarot with his sons. Always at his call is his nine-year-old chow dog, Lun. During his 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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