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Although no hot-lipped trumpeter like his boss, Under Secretary Slattery released a report full of tall talk in Technicolor, pausing occasionally to put the blast on antique U. S. misconceptions of Alaska (see map). He found:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Defrosting | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

On New York highways tight-lipped pickets of the new Dairy Farmers' Union halted market-bound trucks, spilled thousands of gallons on the roadsides. Strikers in automobiles threw bottles of kerosene on trucks that did not stop. Pickets fought State troopers, deputies and non-strikers. One man, slow getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Milk Without Honey | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Yet those were the headquarters and that was the funeral of one of the richest men in the world, a man who by floating loans could keep whole countries from sinking, whose death and its subsequences may cause a political crisis in France. This financial emperor was a fat-lipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Post-War Story | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Bethlehem. One hard-headed tycoon who talks (four times a year) is Eugene Grace, whom Charles Schwab brought up to be the thin-lipped king of Bethlehem. Last week Grace declared for the benefit of his stockholders their first dividend (50? a share, $1,591,992) since Christmas 1937. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Steelspeakers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan last week, on their way from London to Hollywood (he to play Quasimodo, she probably Esmeralda, in RKO's revival of The Hunchback of Notre Dame), were heavy-lidded, heavy-lipped Actor Charles Laughton and his 18-year-old protegee, picture-pretty, red-headed Dubliner Maureen O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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