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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliantly spotlighted Cathedral Bishop Sheil and the Apostolic Delegate to the U. S. and three other Illinois bishops chanted prayers, asked absolution for the Cardinal's soul. His body was laid to rest in the great seminary he had built, St. Mary's of the Lake, in the handsome Colonial chapel which he had copied from a Congregational church in Old Lyme, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For 3,500,000 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Britain divided the Atlantic's weather reporting between them; storms east of 35° longitude (even with the eastern edge of Brazil) were hunted by Britain; those west of 35° by the U. S. and Canada. But since the opening of World War II, the great British weather-broadcasting station at Rugby has been silent, lest it give aid to enemy bombers, and U. S. weathermen have been left completely in the dark about weather forecasts east...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warm and Cloudy | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Pain and Tumors. About half of the Institute's 3,200 annual patients require operations for brain or spinal-cord tumors. A great proportion of these operations are performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Boss of the boys that moved in that night (carrying canvas signs: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, DODGE DIVISION) was the husky, jut-jawed Chrysler general manager whom Walter Chrysler described to his biographer, Boyden Sparkes, as "a great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone and when Walter Chrysler called from New York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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