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Last week in Honolulu, a court martial sentenced Ben Fleigelmann to five years of hard labor at Governors Island, N. Y. From that fortified dot in New York Harbor, Convict Fleigelmann will be able to see Brooklyn with ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Brooklyn Boy | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

First time KMOX (St. Louis) invited bald, elderly Rev. Louis Sieck of the Zion Lutheran Church to its Church of the Air pulpit, studio technicians schooled him thoroughly in the ticklish trick of winding up his sermon on the dot. Recently the Rev. Mr. Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: On the Nose | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...addition to the Russian Ukraine's traditional obstinacy Germany would encounter the fact that the Ukraine of 1938 is not only rich but apparently pretty well satisfied. Iron, steel, machine-building and chemical industries dot the Donetz region. Kharkov, birthplace and longtime capital of the Soviet Ukraine, is an industrial city specializing in farm equipment. Instead of growing only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...million-and-a-half pleasure craft, of which some 400,000 are motor boats, dot the waters of the U. S. Because of increased leisure and the creation of large artificial lakes as a result of Federal dam-building, the U. S. brotherhood of pleasure boatmen has expanded considerably in the past two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pleasure Boatmen | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...twelve times the normal load), oil, food, hotel suite, weather and compass course. Jones furnished American Airlines with good publicity for its southern low altitude route across country. Like the misdirected Douglas Corrigan, Jones during his return to Los Angeles will exhibit himself and his plane at airfields which dot the American Airlines route. He will probably sell a lot more Aeroncas when he gets home, having proved that, with a pilot at the stick who doesn't need much sleep, baby ships need not be confined to the environs of their airport cribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cheap Trip | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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