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...This was a great rubbish heap-this factory!" the Nazi roared in Windsor's ear. "It was worse than a rubbish heap because it was fouled by communists. And then The Leader Adolf Hitler came along and all that was changed! Look at the happy workingmen! LOOK AT THEM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hett Windsor! | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...Without apparent warning, there is a terrific roar of pistol shots, and men in the front ranks of the marchers go down like grass before a scythe. The camera catches approximately a dozen falling simultaneously in a heap. The roar of the police pistols lasts perhaps two or three seconds. Instantly the police charge on the marchers with riot sticks flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frightful Film | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Ambulances and fire-trucks were now clanging in from every direction. Commander Rosendahl's splendid Navy discipline kept confusion at a minimum. The flames began to subside, but dense black smoke still poured from the twisted heap of redhot girders and the smoldering pud- dle of fuel oil. Not until next morning was the wreckage cool enough for men to pry out all the crisped bodies within, many of them only tentatively identifiable. The dawn score of deaths stood at eleven passengers, 21 crew, while 28 passengers and 49 crew miraculously escaped. One member of the ground-crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh, the Humanity! | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...broke through the woods with a noise loud enough to scare every trout within 50 yd. Abashed, the hiker tiptoed downstream, dropped his burden in a small clearing. While the two fishermen watched, first in irritation then in amazement, he took a red rubbery roll of cloth and a heap of small sticks from his duffle, put the sticks together in a simple frame, shoved it into the red material, tugged here, patted there and in ten minutes had a trim, 17-ft. boat shaped like an Eskimo kayak. Two more sticks merged into a double-ended paddle. The hiker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faltbootpaddeln | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...support to the program in a faltering and unconvincing manner "Melody for Two" which stars the golden voiced James Melton, turns out to be as unsatisfactory as the feature picture. With Patricia Ellis as his running mate, Melton sings and swings his way from the top of the heap to the bottom and all the way back again...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/27/1937 | See Source »

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