Search Details

Word: diversions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Soon Italy's famed Artiglio II, champion treasure-hunting ship (TIME, July 4, et ante), was called into action. Her divers reported that the Promethee lies on an even keel in 230 ft. of water where the current is exceedingly swift. Twice the divers' telephone connection with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prometh | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Some $5,000,000 worth of sovereigns, gold bars and silver ingots were in the Egypt's strong room, placed there by one of the Egypt's officers named Cameron. The Artiglio's crew last week wished bad cess to Second Officer Cameron. For a decade he had kept to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fortune from Neptune | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

But his woes continued to thicken. Fox Theatre Corp., from which he was ousted in 1930, filed suit last week against Founder Fox, his wife, daughter and four friends, demanding an accounting of profits from alleged manipulations of the company's stock while Fox was in control. Some of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

In the last year and a half cinemanufacturers have not produced 30 pictures of 'high moral tone and alive with romance, adventure and historical worth." Herewith a list of 24 which might do for a school-age camp: Cimarron, Rango, City Lights, Trader Horn, Skippy, A Connecticut Yankee, Chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Gold ingots worth $320,000 plunked into Cherbourg harbor last week while Frenchmen were unloading $24,000,000 of gold from the U. S. from the British liner Berengaria. Soon French divers had recovered all but $24,000 worth of the lost gold. When they finally gave up the hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold's Week | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Next