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Perennial battleground of the ancient world was Armageddon, which lies about ten miles south of Nazareth, 15 miles from the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The Hebrew word is har magiddo, which may originally have meant "fruitful mountain" or "desirable city." Megiddo, the name by which the site is known to modern archeologists, guards the pass from Egypt through the Carmel ridge to the once-rich valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris. There, according to the Old Testament, "Pharoaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria" and Josiah, in disguise, battled against him. * There Thutmose III of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Armageddon | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...morning Lieut. Commander Wil liam McDade and 80 officers and men of Patrol Plane Squadron VP6 climbed into twelve huge low-slung flying boats in San Diego Harbor, roared off without cere mony in trim formation toward Pearl Har bor, 2,553 mi. away. Next morning, 21 hr. 48 min. later, Patrol Squadron VP6 completed its routine task without mishap at Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Routine Record | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

fraternal societies so furiously get together? -because men are afraid of the wide open spaces. TROPIC FEVER-Ladislao Szekely-Har- per ($3). Plain reminiscences of the author's sweaty experiences as youthful overseer on tobacco and rubber plantations in Sumatra 20 years back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...President Gordon Rentschler's salaries had been boosted from $75,000 to $100,000, Chairman James Handasyd Perkins of Manhattan's National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem now definitely committed to a program of social legislation which will iron out some of the inequities of our economic order. . . . This is altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bank Week | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...noon, massed along the hill streets and in front of Har-Brack Union High School, the crowd watched Allegheny's workers parade in white shirts and black ties before a reviewing stand while five bands and two bugle corps raised Tarentum's roofs. By 2 p. m. the Har-Brack athletic field was filled with citizens who overflowed the bleachers, stood on the baseball diamond. On a platform draped with flags sat the guest of honor, surrounded by friends and microphones. Over a national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sheldon Day | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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