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"I was still a school girl during the War, but not too young to remember what happens when enemy planes ride over a town. I knew then that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to do something to lessen this horror. When I was in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bombproof | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Early in 1935, Western Newspaper Union's silver-haired President Herbert Henry Fish proposed a reorganization plan which was to scale down interest payments on W. N. U.'s bonds from 6% to 2%. President Fish explained that he wanted to "conserve principal." When this plan was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Boiler-Plater | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

"But ever since summer crops have been cultivated in the Nile valley, it has been found necessary to conserve the water during the flood season. The source of the Blue Nile, or Lake Tana, is generally agreed to be the place best suited for a dam site. With just such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: France's Alliance With Britain in Mediterranean Fits in With Policy of Protection From Invasion, Says Langer | 10/8/1935 | See Source »

The first prize recipe, wherever honest Sergeant Brown got it, was purely French or it would scarcely have won at the hands of Chef Cedard. The distinction: an English soup starts with water into which things are thrown; a French soup starts with ingredients so prepared as to develop and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Soupstakes | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Farm & Factory | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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