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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer was won by Henry B. Nevins, Inc.'s George F. Crouch of New York. Also awarded: $15,000 and $20,000 first prizes for 110-and 165-foot submarine chasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Small Boats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Manhattan is a cluster of villages, and among the 1,000-odd newspapers and magazines published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vista's Tomorrow | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Coatesville, Pa. (pop. 14,582) saw a demonstration of a new brand of service which requires neither stops nor flying fields, were told that beginning May 12 it would be given daily to Coatesville and 54 other towns in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and Ohio by All-American Aviation, Inc., under Government contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pick-up | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Alleging that the advertising of two products sold under the name of oldtime ageless Actress Edna Wallace Hopper is "exaggerated and untrue," the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Affiliated Products, Inc. of Jersey City. Example: an ad which quoted Miss Hopper as saying, "I am past 60,* yet boys scarcely above college age often try to flirt with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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