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Joseph Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

High over droughty Kansas, one afternoon last week, a U. S. Army bomber flew into a dust storm. Lieut. Harold Neely eased his ship out of the sudden dusk and up to 11,000 feet, where the air was clear. Noting that the gasoline gauge was low, he turned on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: In the Dust | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--An Eastern Airlines pilot brought his big transport plane down safely in a freshly plowed field 20 miles east of here today while flames roared in the baggage compartment and smoke filled the cabin where seven passengers were. The passengers and a crew of three escaped uninjured.

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

Francis David Langhorne Astor, 27, son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor. Already serving were sons Michael, William Waldorf, John Jacob. Said Lady Astor (whose gas mask contains a compartment for lipstick and compact): "I know what the horrors of war are, for I went through the last one when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

A smoker's pipe with a tobacco storage compartment attached.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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