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...women were big with child. Three infants had been delivered on the Genoa docks. Trucks, provided for each family by the Government, rumbled each family to its new home. These were 25-to-75-acre farms, laid out by Government engineers, completely equipped with a fire on the hearth, food on the shelves, cattle and poultry in the yard and a picture of Il Duce on the farmhouse wall. The farm, valued at $2,250, and the truck must be paid for over a 35-year period. The Government has guaranteed to purchase all the crops. When asked why electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fourth Shore | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Four years ago Herbert W. Graham, supervising metallurgist for the fourth largest U. S. steel maker, Jones & Laughlin, persuaded his company to build a miniature steel mill for research. This $175,000 toy mill's open-hearth furnace, ingot molds, soaking pit and rollers produce one-inch square bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Non-Rheumatic Steel | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...Lossiemouth are both my heart and my hearth," said he. "A Lossie loon [boy] was I born, and a Lossie loon shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death of MacDonald | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying and beard full of burrs, he would lope from the forest at evening, accept supper from a solitary homesteader, read aloud from the Bible or a volume of Swedenborg he usually carried, sleep on the hearth and be off at dawn, often leaving a few pages of his Bible behind him. Growing to believe that clothes were not for comfort but only to cover nakedness, he took to wearing a coffee sack with holes for his arms and legs. He ate no meat, lived chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: A is for Apple | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Once in the War of 1812 he ran 60 miles in a day to warn settlers of an Indian raid. Finally, at 72, he wandered to Fort Wayne, Ind. At a settler's house near there, after hiking 20 miles, he lay down on the hearth to rise no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: A is for Apple | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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