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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about three times the endurance of natural rubber. Therefore, at 20? a pound, it would be much cheaper, on a tire mileage basis than the 14? a pound at which natural para rubber is currently quoted. Dr. Egloff believes that U. S. commercial production of his butadiene rubber will get under way in less than a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rubber from Butane | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...founder's son, Don Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, continued to publish a Monarchist A. B. C. in Seville. When Franco took Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper" and folded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Editions | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...someone who bores her, "he stinks." A good dancer, she is fond of other good dancers like slinky Cesar Romero, lanky Lee Bowman. There was talk of a Bowman-Henie romance until it became known that Sonja, noting Bowman's high hairline, had baldly advised him to get fitted for a toup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...pocket when he was fatally stricken with tularemia last This year she took up with one Bob Shaw, a $50-a-week Fox stock boy (extra). To public curiosity about her private life, Sonja Henie is about as impervious as Greta Garbo. Says she: "I am too busy to get married. I have too much to do. Anyway I have no one to get married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...bourn Hollywood visited in Death Takes a Holiday. As gently as a mortician, but allowing itself an occasional smile, it presents Death as a softspoken, courteous gentleman ("Mr. Brink") equipped with an impeccable British accent. Its story is what might happen if an old man, tenacious of life, could get this urbane Grim Reaper trapped up an apple tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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