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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holbrook has led a varied life ranging from lumber-jacking in Winnipeg to writing and reporting. His book, "Holy Old Mackinaw" has run through five editions and received extensive praise from Carl Van Doren, historian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stewart Holbrook to Speak Monday Evening on Mining | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...Swensson's sacred musical was such a success that it went on tour, in lumber wagons along dusty Kansas roads, to the neighboring towns of Salemsburg, Salina and New Gottland. Next year they did it again. The chorus grew, acquired a permanent orchestra and conductor, hired famous soloists like Lillian Nordica, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Olive Fremstad. Lindsborg's annual Messiah became the biggest musical event in Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wheat- Belt Messiah | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...democracies, who have always officially believed the Aggrandizer's words rather than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mehrer's Progress | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Currently the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association, organized in 1936, is in a frightful row because a nonmember, Shepard Steamship Co., which hauls lumber to the Atlantic Coast, undercuts conference rates to attract return freight rather than send its ships back in ballast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Cutthroat | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Italy will import such valuable potential wartime supplies as naphtha and manganese, vital peacetime products such as coal, lumber, wheat and barley. Symbolic of their new pocketbook friendship was the launching at Livorno last week of a small destroyer, Italian-built for the Russian Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-ITALY: Pocketbook Friends | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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