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Since the nomination was such a pushover, U. S. interest centred on the proposed platform. The convention drafted a plan to nationalize the oil industry completely within the next six years. If the plan is endorsed, all petroleum holdings will be seized, and compensation paid only "in the event that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Silent Victory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Birth control, group health, euthanasia (mercy-killing), the abolition of capital punishment, eugenics, calendar reform are causes which might seem something dissimilar. Yet in Manhattan last week, representatives of organizations vowed to these six causes met in a united front. This clan gathering, celebrated the tenth birthday of the First...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism's Tenth | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

While New York Police Commissioner Valentine sent a special detective to investigate the charge against Detective Broderick, and Navy Yard officials announced calmly that they knew they had Communists among their 9,300 workmen, but watched them carefully, main interest in the Communist Party centred on Comrade Malkin's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Dies | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

The steel industry, with its 410 steel mills centred around Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham so vast that the four largest can produce more steel than all Germany. The automobile industry which in a year produces 2,500,000 motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Pursuit of Happiness | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Another type of bargain-hunting centred about movie companies which sold off on the outbreak of war because they depend on belligerents for as high as 40% of their gross from pictures. Last week, shrewd buying was anticipating new strength in movies on an offsetting increase in U. S. moviehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Month at the Races | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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