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Streams. The Census showed that certain rivers of migration, begun in the decade before last, still flowed on. The great exodus was from Oklahoma and the other drought-area States in the Great Plains tier (see map). Fastest-growing State was Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENSUS: 130 Million Plus | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Righteously indignant, Mr. McCrea attempted a raid on Judge Ferguson's grand-jury chamber, alleging that witnesses had been tortured until they squealed. The judge's guards slammed the door on McCrea's deputies, stuffed the judge's records into a vault. Next day. Judge Ferguson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Detroit Houseclecming | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Ladies in Retirement is one of those hard-hitting, old-fashioned melodramas which somehow make the newfangled ones look sick. It is very English (even the daffy sisters remain outdoor girls to the last), but it makes a genteel Victorian parlor seem more sinister than any number of opium dens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Driving out of Shanghai's International Settlement to the westward, one notices the broad, quiet residential streets suddenly give way to a crowded, garish area, bright with neon signs and highly colored billboards, a section in which there is many a long, luring arcade leading to gambling halls, opium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Cultivated Lands | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

The Book Center would be a friendly building, divided into many rooms and dens; each room would contain books on a related group of subjects, and to each room would be appended stacks, open to anybody. A personable reference staff would be ready to help students at any time. And...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIBRARY: PRIMARILY FOR UNDERGRADUATES | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

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