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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closely-watched prisoner in his Belvedere Castle, Herr Schuschnigg was being permitted the comfort of daily visits from his blonde, 34-year-old fiancee, Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, whose talent for fine music was Schuschnigg's solace following the death of his wife in a motor crash three years ago. But he has few other liberties. "How could we let Schuschnigg go free now?" reasoned solicitous Nazi officials. "He probably would not be able to walk the streets for a minute without being attacked by a furious crowd. The world would then say the Nazis killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Anschluss Art | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...original Lockheed Aircraft Co. was started by Allan and Malcolm Loughead, who changed their name because so many people pronounced it "loghead." The company has produced many first-class planes, has had its share of first-class bad luck. After the Northwest Airlines crash in January-when part of the H-shaped tail "fluttered" off a 14-it grounded the model. The fault was corrected by static balances within ten days. About 27 Lockheed 145 have been operating safely ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Perch | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...hole-in-one on the Soldiers' Home golf course. He got through the 1934 and 1936 elections all right, but this year he is worried. By this time, of course, news has filtered through to the masses that the real Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935. What causes Willie Rogers anxiety is that there are two other Will Rogerses in the field-a Connerville doctor and an Oklahoma City draughtsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Names | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...biased is TIME, but Reader Lamar, who does not have all his facts straight. General Franco did not start the Spanish revolution. The revolt's military leader was José Sanjurjo, killed in an airplane crash on the third day of the war. General Franco's army of 450,000 contains at least 300,000 Spaniards by the count of the Spanish Embassy in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...construction, maintenance, refunding old debts, U. S. business needs money badly. Normal method of getting it is by selling stocks or bonds. But since last fall's market crash and the fiasco which resulted when the public refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In the Offing | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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