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The Duke this week wrote an impassioned letter to the London Times, disclosing that two reporters had tried to climb into his house through a window to get a look at King Leopold, had sought to enter His Majesty's railway compartment, had rung up in "bad French" on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visiting Kings | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

For 78 years travelers who went to bed on trains either slept behind the green curtains of standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomettes | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Inside, Roomette cars have 18 sleeping quarters, nine on each side of the corridor, and a porter's service compartment. Across one end of each roomette is a double seat with a folding arm rest. In an opposite corner is a toilet. Concealed in one wall are washstand and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomettes | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Like most U. S. submarines at the outbreak of the War, the L-9, 150-ft. overall, 16-ft. beam, was a crowded, smelly, temperamental craft. She could make 14 knots on the surface, but her red-enameled Diesel engines shook themselves to pieces so frequently the crew strung up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comedy of Errors | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Chevrolet comes in the same two series as 1937-Master and Master Deluxe. Major mechanical change: new-type clutch based on a diaphragm principle used in heavy-duty railroad couplings but never before in automobiles, said to be more rugged, lighter, easier to operate, engaging more uniformly. The body has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fashions of 1938 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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