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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lately Adolf Hitler's strength has seemed to wane. In the German State of Oldenburg last week he waxed mightily. The election was for the local Diet, but Chancellor Heinrich Bruning of all Germany went out to electioneer against the Fascists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler's Oldenburg | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Result: In the Oldenburg Diet of 44 members, the Hitlerites raised their representation from three to 19, thus becoming the leading party. Roman Catholics and Jews, bitterest Hitler foes, number in Oldenburg 124,000 Catholics, 1,500 Jews. Total population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler's Oldenburg | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Bald eagles feed chiefly on carrion. Occasionally they snatch up water fowl, rabbits, fawns or lambs, or make the smarer, smaller osprey their catspaw for a fish diet. There is no authenticated case-even in Spring, when hungry eaglets are yammering in the eyries-of a bald eagle attacking the young of the animal who has made him National Bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Trout v. Eagle | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...wheat are the Chinese. Many miles of noodles (mien), fried, boiled, cooked with egg, chicken, beef or pork, are lifted annually by Chinese chopsticks, slithered and sucked into Chinese mouths. North of the Yangtze Kiang steamed bread (mantos), made of wheat flour, is a chief part of the diet. In Yenching University dining halls, 128 Cantonese boys eat rice, 300 Northerners eat bread, all eat noodles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also iron, magnesium) makes oysters a fine blood-builder in the human diet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Settles Spats | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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