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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands, a small nation, has built her seagoing reputation on small ships, solid, sturdy, comfortable. But three years ago, when the Dutch were in mid-depression, Holland-America Line, which had been floundering in red ink, asked for bids on a ship such as the Dutch had never owned. She was to be of 36,000 tons, 750 feet overall-only half the size of such mammoths as the Normandie and Queen Mary, but one of the dozen biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Pride of Holland | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...this reason, such men as Rogosin [TIME, April 11] are becoming desperate. . . . The attacks against the commercial ESP cards, based on the fact that a careless printer used too much ink causing warp, invalidate none of the Duke University experiments where the old hand-stamped cards were used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...give them an idea of its peculiar properties, he described his own experience after taking a handful of reefers (marijuana cigarets) as an experiment. He crawled into a bottle of ink, stayed there 200 years, took a peep over the bottle's neck, ducked back and wrote a book about what he saw. When the book was done, he popped out of the inkwell, shook his wings, flew around the world seven times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Description | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...Pierce plant, tried a $2,300 car (previously Pierces cost as much as $6,400), then trailers. Last summer, when the reorganization scheme was cooked up, the company was at a standstill, with no cars on the line, 25 employes in the factory, lots of red ink in the ledger. When the market crash last fall halted refinancing plans, the company took refuge in a 77 B reorganization to await reviving good times. When the market crashed again last week, Pierce's 444 creditors were agreed that there was no use waiting any longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bird Cages to Bankruptcy | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...written music exactly suitable to the theme that has required three years of labor to produce. Perhaps what makes this a masterpiece of cinema entertainment, in addition to the color medium and settings, is the actual creation of seven individual characters, all of them dwarfs made with pen and ink, yet all tremendously human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

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