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Japanese cities in the west, which would be the first victims of a Soviet bombing raid from Vladivostok against the Island Empire, enforced full air-raid precautions. Cables from Tokyo said the Home Fleet was being deployed, was "ready for any eventuality."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Terrible Fight | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

BBC experts still rely on their projected coaxial cables to bring television to the north of England, explain that Ormesby Bank reception was possible only because of its 700-ft. elevation, high mast, ideal atmospheric conditions. BBC can guarantee none of these reception assets to all Yorkshiremen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Stretch | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Night at Windsor. While the world's cables hummed with such news and Berlin dispatches reported the mood of the German Foreign Office to be "consternation," Statesmen Daladier and Bonnet went out to be overnight guests of King George and Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle where they were lodged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Unwritten Alliance | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Hospital internes on emergency call sometimes have queer cases to.handle in a hurry. Last week in Manhattan, Interne David Wassermann of City Hospital had the queerest one in his four-month career. He found his patient, a small, plucky handyman named Marion Garey, wrapped in elevator cables over the elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amputation on a Girder | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

The doctor saw that the man was almost dead from a complete fracture of the left lower leg and from loss of blood through many lacerations. To get to his patient, 5-ft. 11-in., 200-lb. Dr. Wassermann had to walk along a steel girder, eight inches wide, atop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amputation on a Girder | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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