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...paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...justice of the peace tied the knot beneath a bower of flowers, on a dude ranch, at Warm Springs, Nev. Back in Hollywood, Mrs. Powell No. 3 begins another small part in Forty Little Mothers with Eddie Cantor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come in to New York City's new $40,000,000 terminal. Said Jack Zimmerman to the Mayor of New York, "This is a swell airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: North Beach | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...named at the national convention in Philadelphia as president of the Girl Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re-emphasized the less glamorous, more practical side of Girl Scouting: not knot-tying but helping Mama with the dishes. On this program the rank & file were not consulted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Indoor Girl | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...better. Under U. S. Government charter and direct ownership the firm operates American Republics Line's passenger-freight service to South America. For that line, by late 1940, Moore-McCormack will have 14-$40,000,000 worth-new 9,000-to 12,000-ton, 16½-to 18-knot passenger-freight ships, constructed under the Maritime Commission's program for rebuilding the U. S. merchant marine. Seven of the new ships have already been launched. Faced with the loss of its Scandinavian-Baltic trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration of the war, Moore-McCormack might well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Hog Islanders | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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