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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mass bombing, probably by night, is a spectre that has overhung Great Britain for ten solid weeks. Every Briton has spotted the hole that he will go to when it comes. Every one supposes that, with all the time there has been to make ready, Air Raid Precautions will save the civilian population from such horrors as were seen in Barcelona and Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: ARP Bombed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Stalin: "You remember, little Adolf had followed the White von Ribbit into a hole. . . . He cried and cried, till there was a big pool of water, and he got so tiny that he fell in with a splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grabberwoch Came G | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Still in the Hole were nine coal-mining companies whose September bonanza served only to reduce their nine deficits from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Measurements | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Interested Parties to War II who had profit rises: 24 iron and steel companies (excluding U. S. Steel) whose net went from $17,835,000 in the hole to $25,811,000 profit; five building equipment makers, up from a $930,000 loss to $3,522,000 profit; 25 machinery builders up from $4,479,000 to $10,329,000; eight railway equipment suppliers-from minus $2,566,000 to plus $4,075,000; General Motors, up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Measurements | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart's shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a darkly ominous commentator who punctuates a morality play about the somewhat dated evils of rum-running, bootlegging, highjacking, speakeasies and Prohibition with warnings that after all, they may happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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