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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moving mines with brains," Navy men call the mosquitoes. They are built to dart at and through enemy fleets, loose torpedoes at surface warships, make a quick getaway (if they are lucky). Submarine chasers, lighter than destroyers, carry depth charges instead of torpedoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Putt-Putts Holed | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...noted English Jesuit who was long connected with oxford University, the Reverend D'Arey claimed that a lasting peace could only he built on Christian foundations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D'ARCY TALKS TO CATHOLICS | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...lunch with the boys." He has already seen the cabin once, during the early stages of its construction, but unfortunately when he dropped in none of the "crew" were around. He left hem a message written in pencil on a 2 x 4, which has been built into the wall in a prominent position and is shown with much pride to any visitor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Club Invited To Lake Placid's New Year Tourney | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...York's No. 3, York Safe & Lock Co., has built some of the world's largest vaults, and during World War I built most of the U. S. Army's howitzers. Now York Safe & Lock Co. is completing a big plant addition for armament production, is hard at work building carriages for the U. S. Army's three-inch anti-aircraft guns. The carriages are so intricate that the dismantled parts take up 52 square feet of floor space, and the most that can be produced is ten or twelve per month. The company also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War News | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

During World War I (which sent the price of tin to $1.10 per lb.), U. S. war planners became tin-conscious. A U. S. tin smelter was built to process East Indian ore imported direct into the U. S. but British interests, practically monopolizing world tin mining and smelting, slapped export taxes on ore shipments to the U. S., stifled the infant U. S. tin-smelting industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Tintinnabulations | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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