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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan and its threat to U. S. possessions and trade in the Pacific. Japan outnumbers the U. S. in some ship categories, particularly submarines. Leahy & Co. do not worry greatly about this, having small respect for Japanese numbers. By U. S. standards, the Japanese have yet to learn to build efficient surface ships, tend to overload them with disastrously topheavy armor and guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Strong Arm | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...build your sewers in Omaha? Why curse me and torture me with your machines and your sewers? I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop! And I am going to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...which are also equipped to make television sets), it has the strongest patent position in television outside of RCA. Philo Farnsworth owns 55 patents, has 78 pending, is positive that no television sender or receiver can be made without using some of his patents. But neither can Philo Farnsworth build a set without the patents of RCA's Zworykin, and so Farnsworth and RCA will cross-license each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Banker Backed | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...with the original conception of house athletics which, far from producing athletes of varsity calibre, was to give each undergraduate an opportunity to compete in organized athletics. At the same time the increased participation which would be the result of such a trophy competition would enable house coaches to build better teams and thus would enhance the competition for the Straus Trophy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRITS FROM A CUP | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...production. The elements which made the play such a success on Broadway have been cut out, one by one, to sop rural box office, industrial interests, and Mussolini. With such a great amount of vitality drained from the original play, the movie cast has little substance upon which to build their characterizations. Burgess Mcredith's radical Quillery suffers especially from this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

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