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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 »

Tupelo is a romantic spot on Lake Waban, Wellesley College's own canoe pond. Here in the Spring determined Wellesley girls lie in wait for tender Harvard Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley, Radcliffe Wait For Class of '43 With Open Arms | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into a spacious room. Its windows looked out on the tranquil lake and lawn and trees of St. James's Park. The clocks of London struck three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Holy Land's lushest garden spots. Anciently, scholars believe, it was Bethsaida. It boasts a mosaic pavement and an altar stone, fragments of the Roman church of the Loaves & Fishes which was built to commemorate Christ's miracle on the other side of the lake. To Tabgha in the past 30 years have gone tourists, British officials, archeologists, Bible students, to visit not the Roman relics but the big, blue-eyed, square-bearded monk who discovered them, Father John Tapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Galilee's King | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Mathieson Alkali announced that its new Lake Charles, La. synthetic salt cake plant would start operations about November 1, thus making the U. S. independent of foreign (especially German) supplies. Chief use of salt cake (sodium sulfate): kraft paper manufacture. >Paperboardcreditors' recoveries on Ivar Kreuger's great debacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Without Benefit of War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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