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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of rationing by food cards was working so cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples Welfare Department to "pregnant women, the lame and mothers rich in children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Honk, Honk, Honk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...holder of the Professorship is chosen each year, without specifications as to nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation, in any field of "poetry," including all poetic expressions in language, music, or the fine arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAWINSKY TO START LECTURES OCTOBER 18 | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

...Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Work | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...essentials for warring nations and their armies, got away in front and by the first day's end had advanced the maximum permissible limits set by the Commodity Exchange Administration (5 to 8 for wheat, for sugar). Popeyed at the spurt but calculating on still further rises, many a holder of wheat and sugar pulled out of the market, determined to hang on to his investment for still higher prices. As a result many buying orders were unfilled. Hides and lard boomed as they had not done since World War I, copper was up to 10, crude rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: War and Commerce | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Dartmouth 2:00 P.M.Nov. 4 Princeton at Princeton 2:00 P.M.*Nov. 11 West Point 2:00 P.M.*Nov. 18 New Hampshire 2:00 P.M.Nov. 25 Yale 1:45 P.M.*SEASON TICKETS. These season tickets are priced at $9.90 and $6.60 each, and entitle the holder to a definite seat location for the Varsity home games except that with Yale

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIGSKIN VETERANS SCARCE THIS YEAR | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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