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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only outlet is a thick steel door. Once the objects are locked up inside, gas from a cylinder is forced into the chamber by a powerful pump. The gas, which is allowed to circulate for at least a whole day, has the ability to penetrate almost any thickness of cloth or fibre, even reaching the innermost grains of a hundred pound bag of wheat with unimpaired efficacy. When the process is complete, the gas is exuded by release of a safety valve and carried off by means of a fan in the outlet pipe. The tapestries and furniture are then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Prepared to Administer Lethal Death to Destructive Bug Burrowers | 11/26/1935 | See Source »

...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wang Winged | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...Gulliver (Amkino) contains what is probably the most extraordinary cast ever seen in cinema: 3,000 puppets. Made of clay, rubber, metal, wood and cloth, specially designed to act for the camera, they are operated not by strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Greenmantle Cloth Bound, Path of the King 90? and $1.25 Thirty-Nine Steps Leather Bound, Three Hostages $1.75 Gap in the Curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: New Viceroy; General Election | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...large, cloth-bound Catalogue will be published early in December. It has been found necessary to set up new type, replacing the old characters, veterans of over 25 editions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Directory to Be Issued Friday or Saturday | 10/17/1935 | See Source »

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