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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World's biggest securities market, with 10,000 issues traded, is the London Stock Exchange. For war "The House," as Londoners call its huge six-story building, has corrugated metal shutters on the windows, slabs of concrete over lavatory glass, skylights, pavements, etc. Inside, 30 seconds before the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: The City v. The Street | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

His plan frustrated by the machinations of a lace-collared fifth columnist, Lord Wolfingham.* (Henry Daniell), Captain Thorpe is clapped into a Spanish galley. There he endures lashings so realistic that a lady tourist in the Warner studio who saw them being administered to Cinemactor Flynn fainted dead away. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Pastor Hall (United Artists) is redder meat. Its central character, loosely drawn from famed jailed, nonconformist Pastor Martin Niemböller, is a man whom the Nazi whirlwind strikes where it hurts most, his conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Offensive | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

He hears records of "some very spirited revolutionary songs from the '50s and '60s."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 2040 A.D. | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Financed by the Rockefeller Foundation, Princeton's Centre does its listening over two short-wave receivers seven days a week from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. Under favorable conditions it hears an average of 65 programs a day. Last week the centre transcribed its 1,000th program, issued its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Europe on the Air | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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